We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you’re low. We need each other in that way.
Meryl Streep quotes | We need art
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope quote on Art
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
John Keats | Excellence of every art
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Art
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe | Modern art
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Science, Art
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Art, Nature
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Art, Life
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler – Art
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler – Life, Science, Art
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca – Art
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
Michel de Montaigne – Dreams, Art
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Art – Edmund Burke
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Voltaire – Success, Arts
I think the idea of art kills creativity.
