Quotes about Art
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
- Marc Chagall
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
- Aristotle
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
- Olivia Newton-John
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Pablo Picasso
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
- Bishop TD Jakes
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
- Vincent Van Gogh
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
- Michelangelo
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
- Nikki Giovanni
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- Oscar Wilde
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
- Ed Koch
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
- Virginia Woolf
There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.
- James Franco