Art Quotes - page 8

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? (Oliver Goldsmith)
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. View quote
Rebecca West
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. View quote
Julie Taymor
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. View quote
Donald Judd
Art will never be able to exist without nature. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Art hurts. Art urges voyages- and it is easier to stay at home. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. View quote
Jeff Koons
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet - it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you. View quote
Joss Whedon
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. (Oscar Wilde)
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. View quote
Neil Simon
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. View quote
James Huneker
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. View quote
Stella Adler
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. View quote
Laura Riding
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. View quote
Will Durant
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. View quote
Thomas Merton
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! View quote
Henry Fielding
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. (Walter Pater)
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. View quote
William Osler
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. View quote
Kenneth Clark
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz