Quotes about Art
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
- Marcus Aurelius
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
- William Wordsworth
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
- Heinrich Heine
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
- Henry David Thoreau
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.
- Marina Abramovic
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- Mark Twain
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.
- Aldous Huxley
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
- Aldous Huxley
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
- Bill Walsh
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
- CS Lewis
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
- CS Lewis