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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
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Wolfe, Thomas

2.
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
Picasso, Pablo

3.
There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.
Gutzkow

4.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Sand, George

5.
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

6.
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
Picasso, Pablo

7.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Baudelaire, Charles

8.
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
Shakespeare, William

9.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

10.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Jacob, Max

11.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Frye, Northrop

12.
Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
Penn Jillette

13.
It is either easy or impossible.
Dali, Salvador

14.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Proverb, Danish

15.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis

16.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Ionesco, Eugene

17.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

18.
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Parker, Dorothy

19.
I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.
Jovovich, Milla

20.
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.

21.
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Eckhart, Meister

22.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca

23.
The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

24.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
Brown, John Mason

25.
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?
Edith Wharton

26.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Frost, Robert

27.
Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Pound, Ezra

28.
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

29.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Warhol, Andy

30.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Richter, Jean Paul

31.
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Kooning, Willem De

32.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
Chagall, Marc

33.
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
Berger, John

34.
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
Truman, Harry S

35.
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.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

36.
I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Maistre, Joseph De

37.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

38.
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
London, Jack

39.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Cocteau, Jean

40.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Eyre, Richard

41.
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

42.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Melville, Herman

43.
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

44.
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

45.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Klee, Paul

46.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
Baryshnikov, Mikhail

47.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Hockney, David

48.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

49.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

50.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso


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