Quotes about art

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Coco Chanel

If you come from art, you’ll always be art.

David Bowie

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

George Bernard Shaw

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Thomas Carlyle

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Charles Darwin

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as the artist’s reward.

Ernest Hemingway

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Seth Godin

Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist’s haven. So there are paint supplies; there’s a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There’s editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.

Will Smith