Art Quotes

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Frank Stella

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

Frank Stella

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Frank Stella

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean o...

Frank Stella

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

Franz Schubert

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Fred Saberhagen

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Fritz Scholder

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Fred Tomaselli

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

Fred Tomaselli

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Fred Tomaselli

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Felix de Weldon

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Frank Wedekind

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

Frans de Waal