Art Quotes

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”

-- Paul Rand

“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”

-- Salvador Dali

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.”

-- Eric Hoffer

“The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.”

-- Aldous Huxley

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.”

-- Catherine Deneuve

“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.”

-- Pablo Casals

“Art is the proper task of life.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche