Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon. — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through… — MaryAnn F. Kohl Copy Share Image
We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell 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 the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively. — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
