Art Quote by George Jean Nathan

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

— Jules Renard

“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with…

— Immanuel Kant

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

— James Anthony Froude

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

— Poppy

Artists talk in 'art speak.'

— Damian Loeb

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of…

— Billy Connolly

“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in…

— Thomas Merton

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot…

— Allie X

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

— Vik Muniz

The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

— Alain de Botton

“And to celebrate I will create a series of masterpieces showing how wrong-headed and primitive you and your ideologies are, and it is this…

— Anonymous

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse