art Quotes

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the... ...

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Poetry is deeper and more meaningful than history because it talks about general truths, while history talks about specific events.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.