The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. — Ahmed Best Copy Share Image
The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the… — Roger Fry Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image