Best Quotes about Art
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
The heart will break, but broken live on.
Byron, Lord
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
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
West, Rebecca
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Twain, Mark
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
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.
Haydon, Benjamin
A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Berle, Adolf
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Baudelaire, Charles
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
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
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Cather, Willa
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
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Cassady, Neal
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Woodberry, George E.
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
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
Bowring, Sir John
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Franklin, Benjamin
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
Ciardi, John
There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.
Gutzkow
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dineson
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Picasso, Pablo
Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.
Kabir
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
Updike, John
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Motherwell, Robert
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Eliot, T. S.
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green
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.
Faulkner, William
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Kempis, Thomas
Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Stein, Gertrude
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Barzun, Jacques
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
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
Camus, Albert
The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
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
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.
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.
Ruckett
Love can heal a broken heart.
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