Art Quotes

“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”

-- Laura Riding

“My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.”

-- Robert Carlyle

“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”

-- Claude Monet

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”

-- Al Capp

“Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.”

-- Arsene Wenger

“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”

-- Wilson Mizner

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.”

-- Anton Chekhov

“I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.”

-- Alanis Morissette