Quotes about Art
For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is good, but happiness is better.
- Marty Rubin
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
- Will Rogers
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
- Marilyn Monroe
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.
- James Howell
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
- Mark Twain
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
- William Faulkner
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
- Clement of Alexandria
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
- Pope John Paul II
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
- Heath Ledger
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
- Eugene Peterson
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran