We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
– Oscar Wilde
We find life in art and we find art in life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
– Nietzsche
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us
– Andrew Schneider
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!
– Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
– Dejan Stojanovic
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
– John F. Kennedy
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
– John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.
– David Assael
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
– Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
What I dream of is an art of balance.
– Henri Matisse
What is art Nature concentrated.
– Honore' de Balzac
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept
– Robert Browning
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
– Marc Chagall
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.
– Daniel Defoe
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.
– Simone Weil
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.
– Bertrand Russell
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
– Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
– Psalm 42, Book II, Holy Bible
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
– Piero Milani
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
– Albert Camus
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
– E. M. Forster
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
– Willa Sibert Cather
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
– Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
