Art Quotes

“Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.”

-- Camille Paglia

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

-- John Ruskin

“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”

-- Elia Kazan

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

-- Henry Miller

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

-- Cesare Pavese

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

-- Henry Ward Beecher

“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.”

-- Jon Bon Jovi

“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

-- William Blake

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

-- James Humes

“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”

-- William Ralph Inge