Art is Quotes · Page 13

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a…

— Oscar Wilde

I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works.…

— Emily Raboteau

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

— H. L. Mencken

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released…

— Mrinalini Sarabhai

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

— Andre Kertesz

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

The art of art... is simplicity.

— Walt Whitman

The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all…

— Harold Rosenberg

Art is far feebler than necessity.

— Aeschylus

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a…

— Jack White

The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.

— Georges Braque

Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is…

— Augustus William Hare

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

— Anonymous

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

— Mark Rothko

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there…

— Sam Hamill

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

— Pierre Bonnard

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes…

— Susan Sontag

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton