Art Quotes

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

George Santayana

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as o...

George Saunders

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challen...

George Steiner

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

George Sutherland

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Gertrude Stein

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Gertrude Stein

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Gloria Steinem

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same.

Gloria Steinem

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Goldwin Smith

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

Gus Van Sant

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going...

Gus Van Sant

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art.

Gloria Trevi

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may ve...

Giorgio Vasari

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

Gloria Vanderbilt