Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
-Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
-Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
-Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
-Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
-E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
-Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)