Art Quotes

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

-- Walt Whitman

“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