If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor Copy Share Image
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. — John Currin 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
If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve… — Joe Hyams Copy Share Image
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves. — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image