14,373 Quotes About Art

It is not true that the world is too tired and exhausted to produce anything worth praising.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?