Charlie Chaplin Quotes

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

The object of art is to give life shape.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

But of works of art little can be said.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art matters.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

In art economy is always beauty.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.