Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. — George Inness Copy Share Image
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Whatever they are, can Comics be "Art"? Of course they can. The "Art" in a piece is something independent of genre, form,… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
