Art Quotes

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Ville Valo

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Venus Williams

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Vera Wang

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

Vivienne Westwood

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Walter Annenberg

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Washington Allston

Art is born of humiliation.

W. H. Auden

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

W. H. Auden

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

W. H. Auden

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

William Adams

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

Walead Beshty

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Walter Benjamin

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

William Blake