Arts

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

- Ben Jonson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

- Lao Tzu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot

- Harry S. Truman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

- John F. Kennedy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

- Alfred Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

- John Berger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

- Thomas Stearns Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

- Henry Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art Who comprehends her With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess

- Ludwig Beethoven Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors

- Nadine Gordimer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

- Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

- Anthony Burgess Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

- Ralph Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

- Charlotte Bronte Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

- Willa Sibert Cather Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Michael Korda Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Art is an absolute mistress she will not be coquetted with or slighted she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

- Cyril Connolly Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

- Milla Jovovich Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

- Andre Maurois Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

- Paul Gauguin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

- Pablo Picasso Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite

- Elizabeth Browning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

- Northrop Frye Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Robert Motherwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

- Willem Kooning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes