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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
- Wilde, Oscar
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.
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

3.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

4.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

5.
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Gogh, Vincent Van

6.
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Gordon, George

7.
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Parker, Dorothy

8.
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Rosenberg, Harold

9.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
Burns, Robert

10.
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.
Pearse, Patrick Henry

11.
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
Alvarez, A.

12.
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

13.
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Johnson, Ben

14.
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

15.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

16.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath

17.
Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Bierce, Ambrose

18.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham, Duke of

19.
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

20.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Wright, Frank Lloyd

21.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Gide, Andre

23.
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Kronenberger, Louis

24.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Bangs, Lester

25.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn

26.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

27.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Shaw, George Bernard

28.
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
Updike, John

29.
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

30.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Berger, Thomas

31.
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

32.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Sand, George

33.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Reinhardt, Ad

34.
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
Ward Jenkins

35.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Gandhi, Indira

36.
It is either easy or impossible.
Dali, Salvador

37.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Eliot, T. S.

38.
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani

39.
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Carlyle, Thomas

40.
Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

41.
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Erasmus, Desiderius

43.
Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

44.
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

45.
The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Proverb

46.
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Gandhi, Indira

47.
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

49.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Rosenberg, Harold

50.
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck


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