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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
- Connolly, Cyril
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Berle, Adolf

2.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Schumann, Robert

3.
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Grass, Gunther

4.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Bangs, Lester

5.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

6.
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Rosenberg, Harold

7.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Chagall, Marc

8.
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Jefferson, Thomas

9.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Paz, Octavio

10.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix

11.
O, had I but followed the arts!
Shakespeare, William

12.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Pound, Ezra

13.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath

15.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Waugh, Evelyn

16.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Ginsberg, Allen

17.
Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

18.
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
Bayley, Stephen

19.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Ruskin, John

20.
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Parker, Dorothy

21.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Tynan, Kenneth

22.
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
Sontag, Susan

23.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?
Dworkin, Andrea

24.
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
Truman, Harry S

25.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Eyre, Richard

26.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Eckhart, Meister

27.
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.
Ruckett

28.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Kennedy, John F.

29.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
Brown, John Mason

30.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Picasso, Pablo

31.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William

32.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
French, Marilyn

34.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Nightingale, Florence

36.
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
Havel, Vaclav

37.
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
Byron, Lord

38.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Pound, Ezra

39.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Melville, Herman

40.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Schnitzler, Arthur

41.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
Baldwin, James

43.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

44.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Kooning, Willem De

45.
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Benjamin, Walter

46.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
Pascal, Blaise

48.
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One
Wilde, Oscar

49.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Davis, Angela Y.

50.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
France, Anatole


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