Category: Quotes About Art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize. -James Joyce

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. -Henri Frederic…

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. -Jodie Foster

Land really is the best art. -Andy Warhol

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. -John Updike

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France

The perfection of art is to conceal art. -Quintilian

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. -Stanley Kubrick

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. -Stephen Fry

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. -Voltaire

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. -Danny Boyle

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -Stella Adler

Even a true artist does not always produce art. -Carroll O'Connor

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. -Hedy Lamarr

Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon. -Billie Joe Armstrong

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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -William James

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

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. -T. S. Eliot

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. -Akhenaton