Art Quotes
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
-- Knut Hamsun
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.”
-- Thomas Guthrie
“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.”
-- Wole Soyinka
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
-- Georg Cantor