Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like,… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
(...) 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
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
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
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
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
