Art Quotes - page 4

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. (William Saroyan)
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. View quote
Willa Cather
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. View quote
Gloria Steinem
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. View quote
Luis Barragán
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. View quote
Ludwig Erhard
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. (Edith Wharton)
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. View quote
Walter Winchell
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. View quote
Thomas Browne
Art is the triumph over chaos. View quote
John Cheever
The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. View quote
Frank Stella
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. (Paul Gauguin)
Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. View quote
Bob Dylan
In art as in love, instinct is enough. View quote
Anatole France
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. View quote
Anatole France
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. View quote
H. L. Mencken
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