Art Quotes

14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors

The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural… — Unknown Author
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.… — Albert Einstein
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut
Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long… — William Shakespeare
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances… — Auguste Rodin
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen
My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — Thomas Sowell
...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and… — Jamie Lee Curtis
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. — Oscar Wilde
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. — Seneca the Younger
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward… — Walt Whitman
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain… — Samuel Johnson
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and… — Salman Rushdie
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to… — Amiri Baraka
I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is. — Tom Jones
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose… — Carl Jung
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds… — Marcel Proust

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