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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- Kennedy, John F.
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
O, had I but followed the arts!
Shakespeare, William

2.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pope, Alexander

3.
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

4.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath

5.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Connolly, Cyril

6.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis

8.
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
Nickolas Muray

9.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Parker, Theodore

10.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
Chagall, Marc

11.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Kooning, Willem De

12.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Burroughs, William S.

13.
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Barenboim, Daniel

14.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Beauvoir, Simone De

15.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Voznesensky, Andrei

16.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Pound, Ezra

18.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Adorno, Theodor W.

19.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes

20.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Langer, Suzanne K.

21.
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Bowen, Elizabeth

22.
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Schumann, Robert

23.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

24.
Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Bellow, Saul

25.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn

26.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton

27.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides

28.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Ruskin, John

29.
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
Proverb

30.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Shaw, George Bernard

31.
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
Charles Rosin

32.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham, Duke of

33.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Miller, Henry

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
David Cronenberg

38.
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
Updike, John

39.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Barzun, Jacques

40.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Erasmus, Desiderius

41.
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.
Jeff Melvoin

42.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Key, Ellen

43.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero

44.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

46.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Jacob, Max

47.
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

48.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Melville, Herman

49.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

50.
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
Brancusi, Constantin


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