Art Quotes

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

~ Joel Osteen

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

~ Christina Aguilera

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

~ Judy Chicago

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

~ Allen Tate

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

~ Ai Weiwei

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

~ Terry Eagleton

The history of art is the history of revivals.

~ Samuel Butler

History develops, art stands still.

~ E. M. Forster

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

~ Jeff Koons

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

~ Patricia Heaton

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

~ Jacques Chirac

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

~ Danica Mckellar

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

~ Vivienne Westwood

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

~ Graham Swift

Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.

~ Megalyn Echikunwoke

Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do something. You don't really have to do that. You can make it all the time. And 99 percent of the time, it's not going to be a big deal on a global scale. But 100 percent of the time, it's going to make you feel amazing.

~ Daveed Diggs

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

~ Geoff Downes

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

~ Ridley Scott

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

~ Rita Ora

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

~ Jerry Saltz

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

~ Elvis Mitchell

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

~ Priyanka Chopra

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

~ Amanda Seyfried

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

~ Zayn Malik

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

~ Henry Kissinger

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

~ Alfred Adler

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

~ Richard Holloway

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

~ Austin Nichols

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

~ Ossie Davis

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

~ Jimmy Carl Black

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

~ Blaise Pascal

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

~ Alexander Pope

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

~ Anatole France

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

~ Martin Luther

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

~ Michelangelo

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

~ Paul Cézanne

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven