Art Quotes

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

-- Jennifer Garner

“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”

-- Stendhal

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

-- Pablo Picasso

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

-- Winston Churchill

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”

-- H. L. Mencken

“I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.”

-- Maria Callas

“Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”

-- Albert Camus

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

-- William Wordsworth

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

-- Marcus Aurelius