Art quotes

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

It's 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.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

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.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.