Art Quotes

14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not… — Christian Morgenstern
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good. — Stanley Kubrick
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom. — Michelangelo
In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art. — Julia Cameron
I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music… — Steve Kerr
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. — Winston Churchill
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. — Izaak Walton
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down… — Benjamin Disraeli
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it… — Bliss Carman
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things,… — Franz Marc
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! — Thomas Hood
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we… — Quintilian
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Philibert Joseph Roux
If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. — Sri Aurobindo
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. — Havelock Ellis
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where… — Tom Robbins
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever… — Eckhart Tolle

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