Quotes about Art

Whatever men make, she says, what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.

Make friendship a fine art.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.