Famous Quotes About art

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

History develops, art stands still.