Art Quotes

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

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

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.