Art Quotes - Famous Top 100
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| A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.. Charles Baudelaire |
| A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.. Leonardo DaVinci |
| A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.. Hedy Lamarr |
| A great artist is always before his time or behind it.. George Edward Moore |
| A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.. Albert Camus |
| A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.. Paul Gauguin |
| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.. Michelangelo |
| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.. Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.. Edmond de Goncourt |
| A picture is a poem without words.. Horace |
| A picture is a poem without words.. Horace |
| A picture is worth a thousand words.. Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.. Henri Matisse |
| A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.. Lionel Trilling |
| A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.. Henry Moore |
| A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.. THEODORE ADORNO |
| A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.. Eugene Ionesco |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.. Oscar Wilde |
| A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.. Marcel Proust |
| A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.. Gertrude Stein |
| Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.. Al Capp |
| Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.. Albert Camus |
| Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.. Marshall McLuhan |
| Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.. Marshall McLuhan |
| All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.. James Baldwin |
| All art is an imitation of nature.. Seneca (Seneca the Elder) |
| All art is but imitation of nature.. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) |
| All art is quite useless.. Oscar Wilde |
| All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.. John Ruskin |
| All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.. PABLO PICASSO |
| All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.. Alexander Trocchi |
| All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.. Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Living, 1891 |
| An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.. Charles Horton Cooley |
| An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.. William Faulkner |
| An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.. George Santayana |
| An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.. Joseph Conrad |
| An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.. Henry Miller |
| An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.. Willem de Kooning |
| An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.. Edgard Varese |
| An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.. Andy Warhol |
| An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.. Evelyn Waugh |
| An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.. Paul Valery |
| And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It's pretty, but is it Art?. Rudyard Kipling |
| Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.. Edith Wharton |
| Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.. Saul Bellow |
| Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.. Joseph Conrad |
| Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.. Frank Gehry |
| Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.. James Thurber |
| Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.. Marshall McLuhan |
| Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.. Jean-Luc Godard |
| Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.. Andre Gide |
| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.. Jacques Barzun |
| Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.. Paul Klee |
| Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.. MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ |
| Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.. Roy Lichtenstein |
| Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.. Thomas Merton |
| Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.. Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.. Yu Cao |
| Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. [1804]. BENJAMIN CONSTANT |
| Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.. E. M. Forster |
| Art has an enemy called ignorance.. Ben Johnson |
| Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.. John Updike |
| Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.. Robert Delaunay |
| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.. Andre Gide |
| Art is a form of catharsis.. Dorothy Parker |
| Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.. Jean Arp |
| Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.. CARL JUNG |
| Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.. Pablo Picasso |
| Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.. Tristan Tzara |
| Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.. Benjamin Haydon |
| Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.. Ayn Rand |
| Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.. Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" |
| Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.. Charlotte Saunders Cushman |
| Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.. Lindsay Anderson |
| Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.. Octavio Paz |
| Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.. Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, 1937 |
| Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.. Anthony Burgess |
| Art is either plagiarism or revolution.. Paul Gauguin |
| Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.. Neal Cassady |
| Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.. Johann von Goethe |
| Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.. Theodor Adorno |
| Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.. Henry A. Kissinger |
| Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.. William Morris |
| Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.. RITA MAE BROWN |
| Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.. George Sand |
| Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.. John Ruskin |
| Art is not a thing; it is a way.. Elbert Hubbard |
| Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.. JULIA CAMERON |
| Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.. Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?. Nadine Gordimer |
| Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.. Henry Miller |
| Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.. Harry S. Truman |
| Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.. Kenneth Tynan |
| Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| Art is science made clear.. Jean Cocteau |
| Art is science made clear.. Wilson Mizner |
| Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.. Eric Gill |
| Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.. Gunther Grass |
| Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.. Kary Mullis |
| Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.. Amy Lowell |
| Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.. Iris Murdoch |
| Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.. James Joyce |
| Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.. Alfred North Whitehead |
| Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.. Oscar Wilde |
| Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.. Jean Dubuffet |
| Art is the objectification of feeling.. Suzanne K. Langer |
| Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.. Elizabeth Bowen |
| Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.. LEONYTNE PRICE |
| Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.. Twyla Tharp |
| Art is the path of the creator to his work.. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Art is the proper task of life.. Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.. Friedrich Schiller |
| Art is the signature of civilizations.. Beverly Sills, NBC TV, May 4, 1985 |
| Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.. Theodore Dreiser |
| Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.. Simone Weil |
| Art is too serious to be taken seriously.. Ad Reinhardt |
| Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.. Guy Debord |
| Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.. TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot |
| Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.. Jean Cocteau |
| Art raises its head where creeds relax.. Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.. Henry Miller |
| Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.. Source Unknown |
| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.. Pablo Picasso |
| Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.. MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ |
| Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?. Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.. Stephen Sondheim |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.. G. K. Chesterton |
| Art, that great undogmatized church.. Ellen Key |
| Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.. Laura Riding |
| Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.. Willa Cather |
| Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.. Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.. Anish Kapoor |
| Artists must be sacrificed to their art.. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.. William S. Burroughs |
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