The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Ralph Ellison
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
I've been slagged off completely by the art world.
Tracey Emin
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
Paul Emsley
Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.
Michael Ende
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the... →
Paul Engle
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from... →
Brian Eno