Quotes about art

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think furniture is art. I don’t think art is just for your walls – I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

Ellen DeGeneres

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group – we all took it together – was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

John Lennon

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

André Gide

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

William James

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.

John F. Kennedy

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Oscar Wilde

This idea of art for art’s sake is a hoax.

Pablo Picasso

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

George Lucas

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

Michael Jackson