Art Quotes on Creativity & Expression – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Hans Hofmann

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Margaret Spellings

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Josef Albers

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Ansel Adams

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Kit Williams

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

David Rockefeller

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Arthur Erickson

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Robert Mapplethorpe

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

Jock Sturges

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Joichi Ito

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

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

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Anthony Trollope

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

Armstrong Williams

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Andre Breton

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Chuck Jones

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Gustave Flaubert

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Yahoo Serious

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Robert Collier

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Socrates

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci