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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Godard, Jean-Luc
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
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

2.
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

3.
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

4.
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
Ward Jenkins

6.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Klee, Paul

7.
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

8.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca

9.
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William

11.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Suttner, Bertha Von

12.
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
Berger, John

13.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.
Bible

14.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Debord, Guy

15.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Lowell, James Russell

16.
I am an artist I am here to live out loud.
Zola, Emile

17.
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

18.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.
Camus, Albert

19.
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Johnson, Ben

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

21.
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
Proverb

22.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Huxley, Aldous

23.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Conrad, Joseph

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Shaw, George Bernard

27.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Picabia, Francis

28.
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Mcluhan, Marshall

29.
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

30.
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

31.
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

32.
It is either easy or impossible.
Dali, Salvador

33.
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
Winkelmann

34.
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

35.
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.
Elizabeth Aston

36.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Zedong, Mao

37.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Ginsberg, Allen

38.
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Driscoll, Louise

39.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Roosevelt, Theodore

40.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Jacob, Max

41.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Voznesensky, Andrei

42.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Ovid

43.
Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Ginsberg, Allen

44.
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

45.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Proust, Marcel

46.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
West, Rebecca

48.
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

49.
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Proverb, Danish

50.
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Cioran, E. M.


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