Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

George Santayana

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Cyril Connolly

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Muhammad Iqbal

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Bill Griffith

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Larry Wall

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert