14,373 Quotes About Art

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Art like life is an open secret.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.(Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball)

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.