Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people. — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two. — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard,… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing. — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
