The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. – Paul Cezanne
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. – Steve Martin
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. – Mason Cooley
Art seduces, but does not exploit. – Mason Cooley
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. – Claude Debussy
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. – Jean Cocteau
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. – Patti Smith
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. – Tom Stoppard
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. – Thomas Aquinas
Riding a race bike is an art – a thing that you do because you feel something inside. – Valentino Rossi
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person. – Alanis Morissette
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. – Jim Henson
What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. – Guy Kawasaki
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. – Stanley Kubrick
