Quotes about art

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

Donald Trump

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without the graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

Vincent Van Gogh

Create, artist! Do not talk!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Alice Walker

He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.

Epictetus

I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It’s not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it’s not what people think it is. It’s wonderful, but if you’re famous and you feel that you’re an artist inside and everyone thinks you’re just a celebrity, it’s really painful.

Cher

Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles.

Robin Williams

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Henry James

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Immanuel Kant