When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni Copy Share Image
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
What is art is not likely to be decided for decades or longer after the work has been producedand then is often… — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else,… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin 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
Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern… — Gary North Copy Share Image
It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and… — Andrew Graham-Dixon 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
