Art Quotes

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Ezra Pound

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Ezra Pound

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Eddi Reader

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of ...

Edi Rama

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little ...

Edward Ruscha

I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.

Edward Ruscha

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Emmy Rossum

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

Eric Rohmer

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Edward Steichen

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and u...

Edward Steichen

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Egon Schiele

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Erik Satie

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Eriq La Salle