With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound…

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

— Aeschylus

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

— Ray Bradbury

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

— Adolf Loos

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

— G-Dragon

“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso