Quotes About Art

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.