Art Quotes

"The ordinary man's indifference to all fine things."

"The purpose of satire is to expose the absurdities we accept without question."

"A picture is a fact."

"A picture held us captive."

"Architecture is frozen music."

"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."

"The artist must first empty himself to be filled with creation."

"The artist mirrors life; life does not mirror art."

"Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

"Writing is the only thing that makes sense when everything else falls apart."

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

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

"Art is what remains when everything else is forgotten."

"Art is the documentation of what it means to be human."

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

"The essence of good taste is restraint, the essence of bad taste is excess."

"The hardest thing in writing is knowing what to leave out."

"Art speaks to what words cannot express."

"Art gives voice to the voiceless."

"Art expresses what words cannot."

"Art is how we express the inexpressible."

"Art should make you uncomfortable, or it's just decoration."

"Art expresses the soul of a people."

"A writer's job is to tell the stories that nobody else wants to tell."

"Art is how we make sense of the senseless."

"I believe that education and art and music are of the utmost importance."

"Art without emotion is merely craft; craft without art is merely labor."