Art Quotes

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

~ Robert Irwin

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

~ Roy Blount

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

~ Christopher Marlowe

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

~ Vladimir Kramnik

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

~ Said Nursi

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

~ J. Paul Getty

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

~ Victor Hugo

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

~ Agnes Martin

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

~ Théophile Gautier

There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy.

~ Novala Takemoto

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

~ Fernando Botero

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

~ Henry James

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

~ William Blake

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

~ David Hockney

My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.

~ Agnes Gund

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

~ Pablo Picasso

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

~ Howard Carter

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

~ Max Eastman

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

~ Jean Rostand

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

~ Charlie Haden

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

~ Gian Carlo Menotti

I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

~ Maggie Grace

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

~ Oscar Wilde

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

~ Piet Mondrian

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

~ Kathryn Harrison

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

~ John Millington Synge

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

~ Marcel Duchamp

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

~ Douglas Sirk

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

~ Walter Pater

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

~ Walter Mosley

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

~ Alfred De Vigny

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

~ Bryan Procter

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

~ Hans Haacke

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

~ Walter Hagen

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

~ Don Marquis

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

~ Molly Crabapple