Quotes about art

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don’t expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too.

Yoko Ono

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Albert Einstein

We spend our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words.

Vincent Van Gogh

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

Ed Sheeran

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Oscar Wilde

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Sylvester Stallone

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

Albert Camus

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

André Gide