Art quotes

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Land really is the best art.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Where thou art, that is home.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.