14,373 Quotes About Art

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.