Quotes about Art
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
— George Bernard Shaw
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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