Quotes about art

I really don’t know what’s good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Ed Sheeran

Cling not to one mood, And deemed not thou art right, all others wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, That he alone can speak or think alright, Such oracles are empty breath when tried. The wisest man will let himself be swayed By other’s wisdom and relax in time.

Sophocles

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‘better than.’ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Frank Ocean

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

George Bernard Shaw

Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

Marcus Aurelius

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

George Edward Woodberry

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

Albert Camus

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Vincent Van Gogh

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

George Edward Woodberry