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Art
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Best Quotes about Art
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.
Miller, Henry
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Scott, Sir Walter
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Weil, Simone
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Gandhi, Indira
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
Faulkner, William
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Frye, Northrop
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
Rowland, Helen
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
Camus, Albert
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Warhol, Andy
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.
Jeff Melvoin
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Zedong, Mao
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
Carter, Angela
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Matisse, Henri
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Wolfe, Thomas
There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
Rich, Adrienne
Love can heal a broken heart.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Driscoll, Louise
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.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Picasso, Pablo
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Fischer, Ernst
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.
Brooke McEldowney
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Thurber, James
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Parker, Dorothy
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
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.
Cather, Willa
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
Pascal, Blaise
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
Haldane, John B. S.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Cather, Willa
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Johnson, Ben
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art has never been made while thinking of art.
Niko Stumpo
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Ellis, Havelock
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Anderson, Lindsay
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.
Trocchi, Alexander
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Castaneda, Carlos
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Cassady, Neal
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Churchill, Winston
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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