Best Quotes about Art
At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Landers, Ann
In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
Jami
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Ellis, Havelock
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.
Poe, Edgar Allan
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Shaw, George Bernard
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.
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
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Murdoch, Iris
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Connolly, Cyril
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Kooning, Willem De
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Art is a form of catharsis.
Parker, Dorothy
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
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pope, Alexander
I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.
Peri, Gabriel
Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Bellow, Saul
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Henri Matisse
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Bowen, Elizabeth
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
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
Shakespeare, William
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Driscoll, Louise
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Parker, Theodore
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
Bunuel, Luis
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Eliot, T. S.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Lowell, James Russell
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Mailer, Norman
The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.
Wiersbe, Warren
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Kronenberger, Louis
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Capp, Al
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Godard, Jean-Luc
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Arp, Jean
Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
Baruch, Bernard M.
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Dali, Salvador
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Conrad, Joseph
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
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Einstein, Albert
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
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Miller, Henry
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.
Varese, Edward
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
Hare, David
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Anderson, Lindsay
The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Carlyle, Thomas
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