Art Quotes

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like …

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extr…

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energi…

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work …

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

All I owe the world is my art.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly …

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.