Art

• Art is the communication of ecstasy. — Peter Ouspensky
• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. — André Gide
• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for a living at 70, sooner than work at anything but his art. — George Bernard Shaw
• Art is long, life is short. — Anonymous
• Like all art, it can educate and elevate or demean and destroy. —Anonymous
• The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh
• Art without life is a poor affair. — Henry James
• Great artists have no country. — Alfred de Musset
• All art is quite useless. — Oscar Wilde
• Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. — Marcel Proust
• Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. — Edgar Degas