Quotes about art

Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man’s soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Oscar Wilde

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Jimi Hendrix

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.

Tupac Shakur

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

Alan Watts

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Albert Einstein

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That’s cool.

Jimi Hendrix