Art Quotes

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

~ Thomas Aquinas

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

~ Khalil Gibran

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

~ Jeff Greenfield

If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.

~ Sascha Radetsky

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

~ Gustave Courbet

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

~ Eleonora Duse

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

~ Samuel Butler

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

~ George Edward Woodberry

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

~ Rob Mcclure

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

~ Ralph Ellison

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.

~ Marie De France

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

~ Nobu Matsuhisa

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

~ Damien Hirst

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

~ Lake Bell

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

~ Janet Echelman

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

~ Barbara Kruger

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

~ David Hockney

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

~ Paul Mellon

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

~ Jon Bon Jovi

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

~ David Elliott

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

~ Joseph Jarman

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

~ Charlton Heston

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

~ Jerome Bruner

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

~ Sterling Hayden

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

~ Ellen Datlow

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

~ Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

~ Claude Adrien Helvétius

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

~ Tony Blair

If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

~ Billy Collins

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

~ Robert Wilson

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

~ Fredrik Bajer

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

~ Rachel Kushner

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

~ Nathan Fillion

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

~ Walter Annenberg

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

~ David Dinkins

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

~ Deepak Chopra