Art Quotes

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.