14,373 Quotes About Art

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.