Art Quotes

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

William C. Bryant

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

William Cullen Bryant

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

William S. Burroughs

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where pai...

William S. Burroughs

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are...

William S. Burroughs

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demand...

William S. Burroughs

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

Win Butler

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

Walter Crane

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Warren Cuccurullo

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Wayne Coyne

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Wendy Carlos

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Willa Cather

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

Will Champlin

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Walt Disney

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long...

Warwick Davis

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Will Durant

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

William Drummond

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

William Dunbar

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

Will Eisner