Quotes about Art
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
— Milan Kundera
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
— Lee Ann Womack
Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.
— Marina Abramovic
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
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