3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
3 December 2020 Brad Holland Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
3 December 2020 Doris Humphrey The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
3 December 2020 Georg Cantor In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
3 December 2020 Voltaire The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle I’ve sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
3 December 2020 Henry Moore A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
3 December 2020 Alexander Calder To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
3 December 2020 Stephen Fry I don’t watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
3 December 2020 Henri Matisse Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
3 December 2020 Catherine Deneuve Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
3 December 2020 Helena Bonham Carter I’m not dead and I don’t have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it’s fine. I think it’s beautiful and a real work of art.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
