Art Quotes

“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.”

-- Steve Martin

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

-- Gustave Flaubert

“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”

-- Andre Gide

“For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.”

-- Vidal Sassoon

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

-- Henry David Thoreau

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”

-- Lord Chesterfield

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.”

-- Blaise Pascal

“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”

-- Edward Hopper

“Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.”

-- Catherine Deneuve