Art Quotes

“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

“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.”

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”

-- Sarah Bernhardt

“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”

-- Albrecht Durer

“Space is the breath of art.”

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

“The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.”

-- Daniel Radcliffe

“Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.”

-- Isadora Duncan

“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.”

-- Samuel Butler

“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”

-- John Donne

“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence