Best Quotes about Art
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Phillips, Wendell
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
Wilde, Oscar
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Picasso, Pablo
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M. C. Richards
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
Proverb, Turkish
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Barenboim, Daniel
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.
Proverb
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
You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Anderson, Lindsay
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
Ciardi, John
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
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Parker, Dorothy
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
Shakespeare, William
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Chandler, Raymond
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Trilling, Lionel
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
Balance is the enemy of art.
Eyre, Richard
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
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Proverb, Danish
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Cioran, E. M.
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
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
Kempis, Thomas
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Dali, Salvador
The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Lombardi, Vince
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Gogh, Vincent Van
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
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Conrad, Joseph
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Klee, Paul
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.
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
Blair, Hugh
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Melville, Herman
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Latimer, Bishop Hugh
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Ruskin, John
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, S°ren
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
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Franklin, Benjamin
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
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Jacob, Max
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