Quotes about Art
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.
— Elbert Hubbard
The belief in God rests on the art and wisdom displayed in the order of the world.
— Gregory of Nyssa
True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.
— James Carse
Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.
— Ilaiyaraaja
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