Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before…

Tagore once said- art has to be beautiful, but before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal…

— Ritwik Ghatak

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

— Ralph Ellison

“Who was it who’d said that all art was completely useless? Jimmy couldn’t recall, but hooray for him, whoever he was.”

— Margaret Atwood

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

— David Hockney

“Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Art is dead. Entertainers like to seem complicated But we're not complicated I can explain…

— Bo Burnham

“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness”

— Ahdaf Soueif

I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a matter of…

— Tony Shafrazi

Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can…

— Momus

“Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I…

— Lucian Freud

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him…

— Patti Smith

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

— Francis Ford Coppola

“...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...”

— John Geddes

“However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and…

— Richard Williams

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

— William Shakespeare