Art Quotes

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

~ Grimes

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

~ Henry David Thoreau

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

~ Milan Kundera

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

~ Daniel Bell

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

~ Austin O'malley

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

~ Ai Weiwei

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

~ Keith Haring

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

~ Albert Einstein

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

~ William C. Bryant

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

~ Oscar Wilde

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

~ Lydia Millet

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

~ Marilyn Manson

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?

~ Howard Jacobson

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

~ Camille Paglia

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

~ Ellen Key

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

~ Damien Hirst

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

~ Ll Cool J

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

~ Sam Taylor-Wood

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

~ Tim Robbins

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

~ Rick Smolan

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

~ Stephen Lang

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

~ George Henry Lewes

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

~ Henry Moore

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

~ Mordicai Gerstein

Politics is the art of the possible.

~ Otto Von Bismarck

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

~ Asghar Farhadi

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

~ Roger Stone

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

~ Hari Kunzru

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

~ August Wilson

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

~ Jorge M. Perez

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

~ Charles De Lint

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

~ Simone Weil

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

~ Jessye Norman

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

~ Alanis Morissette

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

~ Paul Simon

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.

~ Laura Riding

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

~ Richard Attenborough

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

~ Adam Levine