Art Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Leo Tolstoy

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Leonardo da Vinci

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Leonardo da Vinci

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Larry Wall

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.

Lawrence Weschler

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Len Wein

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Len Wein

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

Liz Williams

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no doc...

Marina Abramovic

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

Marina Abramovic

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single...

Marina Abramovic

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

Marina Abramovic

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

Marina Abramovic