“He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
Art refuses to sit still or be easily defined, and the best quotes about it do the same. Here you will find painters, sculptors, musicians, and writers wrestling with creativity, beauty, meaning, and the maddening gap between what you imagine and what you manage to make.
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
“He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
“The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.”
“A picture is a poem without words.”
“I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.”
“Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.”
“Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.”
“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”
“Where thou art, that is home.”
“Art seduces, but does not exploit.”
“All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.”
“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“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.”
“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”