Quotes about art

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for ‘art’ that leaves him unmoved – if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

Robert A. Heinlein

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

George Eliot

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

Ed Sheeran

I’ve always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

Sylvester Stallone

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

George Edward Woodberry

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it’s no longer his.

David Bowie

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Buckminster Fuller

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale

Cooper’s art has some defects. In one place in ‘Deerslayer,’ and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Mark Twain