Art Quotes · Page 158

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

— Edward Abbey

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

— Michelangelo

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.”

— William Owens

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

— Alexandre Desplat

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

— Ovid

Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

— Harry Chapin

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

— Chinmayi

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

— Mannie Fresh

Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to…

— James Franco

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke…

— Guy Laliberte

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

— Natalie Imbruglia

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore…

— Dan Fogelberg

“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it…

— James Salter

“...it's as if I have just solved Skivver's predictive equations, or even better, as if I have intuited the One Equation, seen…

— Rachel Hartman

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the…

— Claes Oldenburg

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now…

— Ben Eine

“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,…

— Anne Truitt

I've always been very opinionated, for lack of a better term, about art. Not to sound too arrogant, but I guess I'm…

— Joel McHale

“Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.”

— Heather Graham

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

— Leon Trotsky

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Travelling exposes you to diverse culture, art and dance.

— Shakti Mohan

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

— Stephen Vincent Benet

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

— Beverly Pepper

“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.”

— Jack Gardner

I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.

— Rondal Partridge

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

— Richard Blanco

“If you have to discipline yourself to achieve art, you discipline yourself.”

— Mason Currey

“Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.”

— Elaine Equi

Some artist make art with paint while others make art with light

— Nigel McKain

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

— Pablo Picasso

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”

— Steven Magee

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

— Dasha Zhukova