Art Quotes

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

Albert Camus

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

Alexander Calder

We started combining the use of light and the use of theatrics and the use of as many art forms as possible, and it's still growing - that's the whole idea of it.

Alice Cooper

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.

Alice Cooper

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Angela Carter

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

Angela Cartwright

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

Angela Cartwright

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!

Angela Cartwright

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.

Anton Corbijn

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Adam Davidson

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

Adam Davidson

I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors....

Adam DeVine

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Albrecht Durer

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Durer

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

Anne Dudley

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio