Art Quotes

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is the perfection of nature.

What you are starting out with may not be exciting or interesting, but don't let that deter you from embracing it and making it your own. There is wonder in all things, you just have to be willing to seek it. As my favorite author, G.K. Chesterton puts it "The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."

...lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and...stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about" into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and subjectification of nature.

Don’t wait for permission to make your art.

Today, no matter what you're doing – music, art, comics, gaming – you have an opportunity to create our next reality.

If you're in tech, you can find artistry in what you're doing. Being creative with your tech is where success lies.

Art is important because you affect other people's lives. You inspire people.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

You can do it from anywhere, because all you're doing is writing a book and hitting a button. Geography is history now, it doesn't matter where you stay.

If you're good, you will be sought out by publishers. You only need to take a look around to see that the best stuff is being picked up.

There has never been any better time to be a writer or an artist.

There has never been any better time to be a writer or an artist.