Art Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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 lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.