Quotes on Art

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.