If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. – William Morris
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. – William Ralph Inge
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. – David Bailey
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. – Rene Magritte
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? – Sarah Bernhardt
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology. – Catherine Deneuve
All I owe the world is my art. – Sherman Alexie
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. – Remy de Gourmont
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. – Billy Joel
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste. – Thomas Edward Brown
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. – Alan Rickman
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck
I think good art does come from a dark place. – Rick Springfield
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. – David Rockefeller
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. – Edwin Louis Cole
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. – Jack White
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. – Russell Simmons
