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
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. — Moshe Kupferman Copy Share Image
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities. — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is… — JR Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. — William Lethaby Copy Share Image
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It… — Vempati Chinna Satyam Copy Share Image
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
