14,373 Quotes About Art

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,—or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge’s phrase, for unity in variety.

There's no such things as picking a side between right and wrong.Human mind is great,And in all it's glory, it can go not just both ways,But everywhere it wants to go.Right and wrong is just the road to take you.You have a foot on one path,And the second on the other,And you ride along, deciding at each steps,Where you're gonna put your weight.The landscape surrounding...Is where the great human mind can go.What is surrounding you?A forest, or a desert?

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Music is an outburst of the soul.