Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

David Herbert Lawrence

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

Lukas Foss

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Walter Benjamin

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

Kim Weston

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.

Alice Hoffman

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Todd Gitlin

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

William Shakespeare

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Donald Judd

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Benjamin Franklin

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Josef Albers

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rita Mae Brown

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Max Cannon

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide