The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself this… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
