Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome. – Miguel de Cervantes
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. – James Wolcott
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. – Malcolm De Chazal
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. – Louise Brooks
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide. – Ben Okri
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. – Karl Kraus
My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. – Robert Carlyle
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. – Ludwig Erhard
Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art. – Jet Li
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then dont write, because our culture has no use for it. – Anais Nin
You dont take a photograph, you make it. – Ansel Adams
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way – things I had no words for. – Georgia OKeeffe
An artist is somebody who produces things that people dont need to have. – Andy Warhol
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web. – Pablo Picasso
Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol
I dont want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Even a true artist does not always produce art. – Carroll OConnor
