Art Cannot Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
• Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
• Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.… — Bertrand Russell
• Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse. — Hans Rookmaaker
• As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be… — Edward Weston
• All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth. — Pete Townshend
• Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world. — Herbert Marcuse
• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky
• Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation — Mr. Brainwash
• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even… — Amiri Baraka
• Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because… — Robert Henri
• Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the… — Romare Bearden
• Art cannot save anybody from anything. — Gilbert Sorrentino
• So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us… — Ray Bradbury
• I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind.… — Agnes Martin
• There is nothing that art cannot express. — Oscar Wilde
• Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama. — Mark Rothko
• Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I… — Diane Paulus
• Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton
• There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. — Clive Bell

Who Wrote These Art Cannot Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 30 Art Cannot Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Art Cannot Quotes by Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2 Art Cannot Quotes by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Hans Hofmann
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Egon Schiele
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Jim Drain
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Herophilos
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Clement of Alexandria
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Hans Rookmaaker
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Edward Weston
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Pete Townshend
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Herbert Marcuse
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Mr. Brainwash
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Amiri Baraka
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Robert Henri
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Romare Bearden
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Gilbert Sorrentino
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Agnes Martin
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Mark Rothko
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Diane Paulus
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Terry Eagleton
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Clive Bell
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by William Blake
• 1 Art Cannot Quote by Alain de Botton