Art Quotes, Sayings about artistic work - Page 3
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
- Damien Hirst
A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
- Joseph Conrad
Art results not when there is nothing that can be added, but when there is nothing that can be taken away.
- O. Collins
Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.
- Benjamin Constant
I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like, really means I don’t know anything about art, but I like what I know.
- Anonymous
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
- Ingmar Bergman
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
- Johann Wolfgang
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
- Casey Stengel
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- Patti Smith
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- Simone Weil
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
- Ani Difranco
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler
I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Ernst Fischer
The art is long, life is short.
- Hippocrates
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
- Robert Motherwell
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
- Rumi


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