Art Quotes

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

~ Anthony Browne

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

~ Saint Basil

The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.

~ Jane Leavy

I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.

~ Taylor Hicks

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

~ Thomas Sydenham

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

~ David Bolinsky

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

~ Pablo Picasso

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

~ Confucius

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

~ Pablo Picasso

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

~ Theodor Adorno

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

~ Adrienne Rich

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

~ Michel Foucault

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

~ Camillo Di Cavour

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

~ Walter Benjamin

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

~ John Ruskin

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

~ Abbas Kiarostami

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

~ Joseph Conrad

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

~ Deepak Chopra

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

~ Michael Leunig

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

~ John Cusack

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

~ Maria Semple

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

~ Jeff Koons

All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

~ Wadada Leo Smith

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

~ Wadada Leo Smith

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

~ Lord Byron

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

~ Oscar Wilde

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

~ Drummond Money-Coutts

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

~ Igor Stravinsky

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Michael Leunig

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

~ George Edward Moore

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.

~ Ai Weiwei

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

~ Dean Karnazes

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

~ Carine Roitfeld

Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users.

~ Tom Douglas

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

~ Colm Tóibín

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.

~ Richard Lewis

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.

~ Steven Erikson