Quotes about Art
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
To most women art is a form of scandal.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.
- George Eliot
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
- John Donne
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
- Marina Abramovic
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;
- Thomas Paine
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
- Ezra Furman
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
- Marina Abramovic
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.
- Myles Munroe
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.
- Oscar Wilde