If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but… — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It has been said that great art is the night thought of man. It may emerge without warning from the soundless depths… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a song, a… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress. — James Whistler Copy Share Image