Age Quote by Laura Riding

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can…

— Philip Taaffe

Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that…

— Laura Riding

Art can articulate new ideas.

— Haris Pasovic

“Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing…

— Neville Weston

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

— Julia Cameron

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of…

— James Joyce

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not…

— Andre Aciman

“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.”

— Albert Camus

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

— Douglas Adams