Art Quotes

"The moving accident is not my trade; building the perfect line."

"To those who insist that art is disengaged and autonomous, I would say that art is not life, but life is art."

"Art warms hearts otherwise left untouched."

"The soul speaks in colors that words cannot capture."

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has seen."

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"All art is absolutely useless."

"Art is the expression of the inexpressible within us."

"Art is the mirror of the soul."

"Art exists to capture the fleeting truth that prose cannot reach."

"Art is the attempt to preserve what time destroys."

"If art does not enlarge men's perceptions of possibilities, what is the use of it?"

"The artist's gift is to illuminate the invisible."

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

"Art is the voice of the soul expressing what words cannot."

"Art transcends the limitations of time and circumstance."

"The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind."

"The greatest works of art are created when an artist is at the edge of madness."

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

"The love scene should be the most sacred in a film or book, but it is usually the most degraded."

"My works are not about beauty; they are about truth."

"The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

"I want to say that the theatre is the pulse of a community, and when the theatre is sick, the community is sick."

"Art captures what words alone cannot express."

"The artist must be in his work like God in creation, invisible yet all-powerful."

"One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form."

"An artist should not believe in the judgment of others, but in the merit of his own work."

"Art is a form of catharsis."

"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."