Home / Topics / Art Quotes

Art Quotes

Browse 25724 quotes about Art.

Art Quotes

“But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.”

Art Ends Simple Pure Music Is

Author:Leo Ornstein

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.”

Thinking Writing Persons Art Ends Bigs Artist Pay Novel Middle Consequence Resources Harder Middle Aged

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.”

Art Ends Together Make Sense

Author:Anna Sui

“Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.”

Art Ends Lying Honestly The End Of The Day Express Yourself Jiu Jitsu Gis

Author:Saulo Ribeiro

“We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.”

Thinking Want Feels Art Ends House Records Beach Unexpected Beach House

Author:Victoria Legrand

“Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.”

Art Ends Time End Times

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.”

Art Ends Action Speech Conscious Utterance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Art has no end but its own perfection.”

Art Ends Perfection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

“All works of art should begin... at the end.”

Should Art Ends Works Of Art

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.”

Art Ends Education Talent Painting Machines Feds Factories Academy

Author:Edvard Munch

“Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.”

Giving Children Art Ends Wealth Virtue Our Children Adversity Your Children

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.”

World Littles Art Ends Felt Impossible Produce Despair Desperation Incidents Verge

Book:Heiligenstädter Testament

Source: Heiligenstädter Testament

“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

Ifs Art Ends Reality Artist Degrees Odd Assumption Unconscious Contradiction Converses Dichotomy Layman

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.”

People Thinking Art Important Ends Painting Art Is Importance The End Of The Day Looking Back Looking Forward

Author:Damien Hirst

“The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”

Mind Art Ends Answers Emotion Effects Produce Art Is Tests Productions Copies

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.”

Ifs Kind Art Ends Beauty Idols Aesthetic Allegiance Seductive Beauty Of Life Degenerates Caricatures Fetish Rest Of Life

Book:Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

Source: Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age

“This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, .. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.”

Needs Giving Art Ends Opportunity Chance Fans Exciting Competition Speed Racing Gaming

Author:Jay Kay

“I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Ideas Ends Speak Pieces Art Is Planning No Idea Imposing

Author:Nick Bantock

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

Mean Art Soul Ends Difficult Imagination Students Art Is Fundamentals Technique

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”

Giving Wells Art Soul Ends Pain Joy Courses Levels Common Brain Known Fantasy Development Art Is Profession Personal Development Pursuit Common Sense Ugliness Diploma

Author:Robert Genn

“In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.”

May Long Art Ends Choices Enjoy Can Do Clear Progress Flow Art And Science Eclectic Delta Clear Direction

Author:Robert Bateman

“Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.”

Mean Art Ideas Ends Whole Dream Waiting Imagination Trouble Exciting Flying Handle Plenty Means To An End

Author:Walt Disney

“When I was younger I was very opinionated about art. And then, I realized that I kind of recognized this pattern where the things that I was vehemently of pissed off about, I would end up loving them two years later. So I just tried to mellow out. Like there's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.”

Thinking Years Kind Art Two Ends Used Skins Patterns I Realized Silly Two Years Pissed Off Mellow Opinionated

Author:Joe Bradley

“Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.”

Has Beens Art Ends Government Effort Mankind Possession Rational Fraud End Times Exclusive Quacks Systems Of Government

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”

Art Ends Fiction Discipline Entertainment Journalism Propaganda Verification

Book:The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

Source: The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

“As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.”

Men Doe Art Ends Social Acting Tears Agreement Components Thyself Assembly Social Life Social Systems Mutiny

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.”

Mean Art Ends Spiritual Materials Truth Is Torture Nonsense Application Discovering Barbaric Discovering The Truth

Book:Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.”

Feels Humans Art Ends Artist Bits Produce Goes On Anxiety Balanced Neurosis Being An Artist Imbalance

Author:Beverly Pepper

“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.”

Art Made Ends Self Spirit Individual Discipline Tradition Contempt Reverence Self Control Submission Exaltation Rigor

Author:Kenyon Cox

“Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?”

Ifs Way Art Ends Lord Disappointment Thee Sinner Endeavour

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.”

People Art Ends Sometimes Given Products Program Budgets Architect Schedules

Author:Frank Gehry

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.”

Mean Has Beens Art Made Ends Expression Drama Errors Genre Opera

Book:Prose works

Source: Prose works

“Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.”

Should Writing Art Ends Song Dark Results Quality Mysterious Songwriting End Results

Author:Martin Gore

“It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.”

Art Said Ends Done Literature Effects Produce Expression Understood Art Is Aim Condemnation

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.”

Art Ends Values Culture Pursuit Poetry Is Ireland Other Cultures

Author:Campbell McGrath

“Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.”

Art Ends Able Together Puzzles

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.”

Art Ends Next House Five Doors Bed Strategy Studios Available Pace

Author:Sara Genn

“As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.”

Art Made Book Ends Artist Masters Fine Slave Comic Comic Book Fine Arts Carnivals

Author:Mark Kostabi