Art Quotes

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”

-- Lady Gaga

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

-- Albert Camus

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.”

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

“Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.”

-- William Shatner

“More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.”

-- Billy Joel

“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”

-- William Osler

“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”

-- Charles Baudelaire

“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

-- Igor Stravinsky

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

-- Robert Schumann