Art Quotes

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

~ Eli Broad

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

~ Mstislav Rostropovich

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

~ Mike Shinoda

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

~ Gerhard Richter

As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

~ Aaron Koblin

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

~ John Maeda

Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.

~ Marcel Dzama

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

~ William Landay

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

~ Perry Farrell

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

~ Charles Pollock

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

~ Imelda May

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

~ Ralph W. Sockman

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

~ Laurie Anderson

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

~ James Green Somerville

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

~ Michelangelo

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

~ Eugène Ionesco

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

~ David Maisel

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

~ Louis Nizer

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

~ Salvador Dalí

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

~ F. Sionil José

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

~ Norman Foster

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

~ Herman Melville

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

~ Pope Paul Vi

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

~ Oscar Wilde

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

~ John Ruskin

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

~ Beatrice Wood

The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

~ Walter Gropius

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

~ Oscar Wilde

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

~ Mike Posner

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

~ Philippe Petit

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

~ Liz Phair

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

~ Al Jourgensen

Nature is the art of God.

~ Dante Alighieri

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

~ Voltaire

Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

~ Antoni Gaudí