There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. — Charles Tart Copy Share Image
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences,… — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The artists of this nation - state are, taken as one historical subject, one of 'latecomers' to the smorgasbord of the artistic… — Charlotte Bydler Copy Share Image
The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Even though it is made up of a for-profit and a non-profit sector, the world of art is an industry just like… — Lise Soskolne Copy Share Image
“What is the world? What is it for? It is an art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite… — N. D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)” — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“All we can do is put our heart and work into the world. It’s our art. It’s our purpose.” — Dave Crumby Copy Share Image
