Art Quotes

“There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.”

-- Jane Campion

“A picture is a poem without words.”

-- Horace

“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.”

-- Simone de Beauvoir

“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”

-- Edward Hopper

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

-- Walt Whitman

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

-- Ray Bradbury

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

-- Orson Welles

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

-- Lin Yutang

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

-- Malcolm Forbes

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

-- Will Rogers