Art Quotes

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.