Quotes about Art
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
— Oscar Wilde
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
— Pablo Picasso
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
— Pablo Picasso
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that tells the truth.
— Pablo Picasso
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
— Pablo Picasso
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
— Pablo Picasso
Man creates what he is.
— Paul Tillich
He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
— 1 Kings 6:28
In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of sculptured work, and he overlaid them with gold.
— 2 Chronicles 3:10
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
— Proverbs 25:11
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
— Toni Morrison