Art Quotes

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

-- Thom Yorke

“Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”

-- Frank Wedekind

“Art is not a thing it is a way.”

-- Elbert Hubbard

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

-- Sarah McLachlan

“In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.”

-- Jerry Saltz

“I think about my work every minute of the day.”

-- Jeff Koons

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

-- Jean Cocteau

“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”

-- John Ruskin

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

-- Amy Lowell