Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever. — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the… — Michelle Malone Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy… — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do… — Rachael Price Copy Share Image
Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image