Quotes about art

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

Virgil

Let’s be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that’s why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.

Barack Obama

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Dickens

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience – in almost sensual ways. When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.

Billie Jean King

I’m going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I’ve got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

Any ‘artist’ makes a living by expressing what others can’t – because they’re unaware of their feelings, they’re too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Chuck Palahniuk

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

John Ruskin

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.

Bertrand Russell