Art Quotes - page 7

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. (E. M. Forster)
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. View quote
E. M. Forster
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Art has an enemy called ignorance. View quote
Ben Jonson
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. View quote
Ben Jonson
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. View quote
Lester Bangs
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. View quote
Paul Valéry
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. View quote
Edward Hopper
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. View quote
William Saroyan
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. (Artur Schnabel)
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. View quote
Thom Gunn
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. View quote
Julia Child
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. View quote
Hans Hofmann
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. View quote
Willa Cather
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. (Margot Fonteyn)
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
Robert Browning
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Art is the signature of civilizations. View quote
Beverly Sills