Art Quotes

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Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom. — Alice Neel
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. — Cindy Sherman
...in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows, but I do it so that I am not… — John French Sloan
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white… — Alfred Stieglitz
I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well. — Andy Warhol
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
There is no work of art that is without short cuts. — Andre Gide
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have… — Umberto Eco
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
Art is a kind of illness. — Giacomo Puccini
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me… — Lady Gaga
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. — Diego Rivera
Believe it or not, I can actually draw. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable… — Charles Bukowski
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution. — Oscar Niemeyer
In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I… — Michelangelo
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model… — Alexander Calder
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may… — Alexander Calder
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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