Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Jeff Koons

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician.

James McCartney

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Julianne Moore

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Jack O'Connell

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

J. August Richards

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Jada Pinkett Smith

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

James Schuyler

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Jerry Saltz

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

Jerry Saltz

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

Johnny Weir

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Johnny Weir

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Kevin Brownlow