Art Quotes - page 3

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. (Charles de Lint)
Art is my life and my life is art. View quote
Yoko Ono
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes. View quote
James Thurber
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. View quote
Frank Zappa
All art is a revolt against man's fate. View quote
André Malraux
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. View quote
John Ruskin
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. (William Morris)
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Architecture is art, nothing else. View quote
Philip Johnson
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Art is whatever you can get away with. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. View quote
William Saroyan
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. (Hans Hofmann)
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. View quote
Willa Cather
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. View quote
Gloria Steinem
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh