Art Quotes

“What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.”

-- Emir Kusturica

“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”

-- Isadora Duncan

“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”

-- Charles de Lint

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

-- Quintilian

“Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.”

-- Theodor Adorno

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

-- Henry Ward Beecher

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”

-- Gustave Flaubert

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

-- W. H. Auden

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith