Art Quotes

“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.”

-- P. J. O'Rourke

“A picture is a poem without words.”

-- Horace

“To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.”

-- Simone de Beauvoir

“The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”

-- Edward Hopper

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

-- Walt Whitman

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

-- Ray Bradbury

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

-- Orson Welles

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

-- Lin Yutang

“Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.”

-- Malcolm Forbes

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.”

-- Will Rogers