Art Quotes

This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious.

Aristophanes

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The supreme black literary artist to date.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?

Honor de Balzac

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

James Baldwin

One writes out of one thing only one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

James Baldwin

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Aeschylus

People can't put on an opera, but they can write a poem. It's accessible art.

Simon Armitage

California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.

Saul Bellow

What is art but a way of seeing?

Saul Bellow

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair

Chess is the art of analysis.