More Art Quotations And Sayings

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“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”
– Steve Martin

“All art is quite useless.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
– Flannery O’ Connor

“Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.”
– Emily Dickinson

“What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.”
– Ani DiFranco

“Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists.
– Jarod Kintz

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
– Ansel Adams

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
– Ansel Adams

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
– Karl Largerfeld

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
– Diane Arbus

“The human body is the best work of art.”
– Jess C. Scott

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”
– Chuck Palahnuik

“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
– Chinua Achebe

“A work of art is a corner of nature seen through a temperament.”
– Emile Zola

“People who love art really do need it in the same way they need oxygen”
– Martin Zimet

“Art is, of course, inextricably linked to money. And art, or at least good art, is difficult to produce. Art is really the realization of a brain concept. But… artists more often than not find it difficult to translate the rich concepts in their brains, derived from many experiences, into a single work of art or even a series of works. This leads to dis-satisfaction and… even to suicide. One solution to this depressing state is not to produce a work of art at all, but only to think about it.”
– Jan Zawadzki

“Art commits suicide on the wheel of creation. From one moment to the next it follows a belief that it is accomplishing something.”
– Jan Zawadzki

“Art is both creation and recreation.”
– Lin Yutang

“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one’s interiority”
– Mu Xin

“Engagement with art – with the product of someone else’s imagination – can change your life, often for the better, and sometimes profoundly.”
– Max Wyman

“Art to me, is seeing. I think you have got to use your eyes, as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn’t work. That’s my art”
– Andrea Wyeth

“Art is not a luxury; it is the soul’s breath of life”
– Joyce Wycoff

“Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.”
– Stuart Pearson Wright

“Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting”
– William Wordsworth

“A picture is a fact.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

“All good art is an indiscretion.”
– Tennesse Williams

“Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!”
– William Wiley

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