Art Quotes

"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life." Paul Cezanne

"Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing." Jerry Saltz

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain." Paul Cezanne

"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life." Michael Korda

"People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama." Carmen Electra

"It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw." Damien Hirst

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters." Paul Gauguin

"Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire." Yoko Ono

"We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art." Andy Warhol

"At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery." Jeremy Paxman

"You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people." Vivienne Westwood

"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still." Terry Pratchett

"I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term." Joni Mitchell

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." Henry Ward Beecher

"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life." Paul Cezanne

"The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples." George Edward Woodberry

"The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur." Graham Swift

"All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy." Jerry Saltz

"We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will." Ashton Kutcher

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth." Pratibha Patil

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well." Aristotle

"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water." Stendhal

"It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing." Dave Matthews

"Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument." William Morris Hunt

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." Samuel Johnson

"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." Charles Morgan

"One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on." Danica McKellar

"I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art." Serj Tankian