Art Quotes

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

~ Bill Watterson

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the soul itself, the soul of each one of us, is to each one of us a mystery. It hides in the dark and broods, and consciousness cannot tell us of its workings. Consciousness, indeed, is quite inadequate to explain the contents of personality. It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

~ Oscar Wilde

I like Julie Gold's song From a Distance. Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life.

~ Ilchi Lee

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

~ Ayn Rand

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.

~ Carla H. Krueger

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

~ Alan Joshua

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

~ Samuel R. Delany

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

~ Carol Hovsepian

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

~ Oscar Wilde

If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

~ Pawan Mishra

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

~ Elizabeth Bishop

Rare and powerful harmonies exist,Shaping both scent and contour in a flower.Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until,Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond.And thus do images of fleeting vision,Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky,Once turned to stone live on from age to age,Held always in a faultless, polished phrase.(A Sonnet To Form)

~ Valery Bryusov

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

~ Jaime Gil De Beidma

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.And to their girls, they will give,while with their sons they'll share;where I will bear a song—a son! The wife of despair.

~ Roman Payne

she wanted because art

~ Nicole Brossard

Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

You only need enough experience to master the art.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

~ Mark Nepo

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.

~ Ben Lerner

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves.

~ Jay Woodman

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries form a giant growing lexicon that means English is simply bursting with new possibilities, resembling the Elizabethan age in that respect. Then conceptually, science is creating new stories to tell, by deluging us with new information and potentialities. In this deluge we need art to do its usual job of sorting things out, by giving things their human dimension and by exploring how they might feel and what they might mean. So to me the arts and the sciences are completely intertwined. Maybe that's always been true, but now more than ever.

~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

~ Laurence Overmire

Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically seem to get it. They share a common goal of love and celebration for the purity of magnificence and brilliance that has been created by the artist. It’s transcendent. It’s inspiration. It’s raw emotion. It’s communication – a perfect marriage of notes, harmonies, lyrics and melodies. It’s the beauty within the beast.

~ J.m. Nevins

Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)

~ Susan Sontag

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.

~ James Joseph Sylvester

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

~ Mark O'connell

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

~ Krista Tippett

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

~ Marty Rubin

What else can you tell me?” Dad stares at me. “What have you learned while you were awake?”I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he’ll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn’t determine whether you get it or not, that “no” might not be enough, that life isn’t fair, that my parents can’t save me, that maybe no one can. “Nothing much,” I mutter.

~ Beth Revis

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows.

~ Sameh Elsayed

The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.

~ Andy Lane

She loves filming and taking photographs. I can imagine her making beautiful films in France or India or somewhere with a gorgeously colourful culture. She somehow reminds me of my favourite place in the world, she and Paris I can romanticize and immortalize in ceaseless poetry for the rest of my life.

~ Moonshine Noire

Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Explore Art without a campus, it is fulfilling in the unknown.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The depth of your art is subject to originality, Your own authentic style.

~ Unarine Ramaru