Art Quotes

“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”

-- Jeff Bridges

“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