Life Celebration Quotes
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
Alexander Alekhine
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
Andy Warhol
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Ben Okri
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Cesar A. Cruz
Charles Bukowski
To do a dull thing with style - now that's what I call art.
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Dave Barry
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
David Bailey
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
E. M. Forster
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Edwin Louis Cole
Art is not a thing it is a way.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
Frank Zappa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Howard Aiken
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White
Jean Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Why not keep this resource at your fingertips or share it?
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
Jef I. Richards
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis
Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
Lester Bangs
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed
To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
Louis C. K.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.
Philip Pullman
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
Quentin Tarantino
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Robert Morgan
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Rudyard Kipling
Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
Saul Williams
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Theodor Adorno
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
Theodore Bikel
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Unknown
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo
Vincent van Gogh
A grain of madness is the best of art.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
Voltaire
The secret to being boring is to say everything.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
What is Poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in a hour.
William Blake
Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
