Best Quotes about Art
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
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
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin
There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.
Gutzkow
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Wolfe, Thomas
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
Faulkner, William
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
Jeff Melvoin
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
Bellow, Saul
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Parker, Theodore
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M. C. Richards
It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
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
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
Mandino, Og
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.
Howe, Nathaniel
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
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Rosenberg, Harold
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
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.
Keats, John
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
Pascal, Blaise
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Henri Matisse
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One
Wilde, Oscar
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
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Bowen, Elizabeth
Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.
Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
Baruch, Bernard M.
Balance is the enemy of art.
Eyre, Richard
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Berle, Adolf
A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Picabia, Francis
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
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.
Peri, Gabriel
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Gill, Eric
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Cezanne, Paul
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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
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 brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Lowell, James Russell
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Weil, Simone
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