Art Quotes

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Until they throw the money changers out of the temple of art, it will never be a real temple.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.