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

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

-- Carl Rogers

“Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).”

-- Jerry Saltz

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”

-- John Lasseter

“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”

-- David Bailey

“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.”

-- Steve Martin

“I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.”

-- Shia LaBeouf

“I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.”

-- Francis Ford Coppola

“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

-- Andre Maurois