Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly… — Ian McDiarmid Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The problem with cinema nowadays is that it's a math problem. People can read a film mathematically; they know when this comes… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not… — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
That's grossing money for other people that has a multiplying factor, but the government doesn't see that. It doesn't see that making… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could be improved… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
