Art Quotes

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Jean Cocteau

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most sup...

Jennifer Chiaverini

In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to q...

Jennifer Chiaverini

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

John Chamberlain

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

John Chamberlain

Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

I think art can reflect tragedy.

John Corigliano

Art is not only about angst.

John Corigliano

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

John Cusack

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Joseph Conrad

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Judy Chicago

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

Judy Chicago

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Judy Chicago

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Judy Chicago

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Judy Chicago

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Julia Cameron

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Julia Cameron

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Julia Child