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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
- Paglia, Camille
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Best Quotes about Art

1.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Kooning, Willem De

2.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Blackie, Professor

3.
The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
Picasso, Pablo

4.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Capp, Al

5.
No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.
Proverb

6.
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Barzun, Jacques

7.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

8.
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

9.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath

11.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

12.
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.
Brancusi, Constantin

13.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Schnitzler, Arthur

14.
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Keller, Helen

16.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Gide, Andre

17.
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

18.
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Castaneda, Carlos

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

20.
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

21.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
Baryshnikov, Mikhail

22.
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green

23.
It is either easy or impossible.
Dali, Salvador

24.
It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.
Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

25.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

26.
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

27.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William

28.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
Faulkner, William

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Pound, Ezra

32.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton

33.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead

34.
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
Picasso, Pablo

35.
Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Thurber, James

38.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Ruskin, John

39.
Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.
Baruch, Bernard M.

40.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]
Rodin, Auguste

41.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Woodberry, George E.

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Burroughs, William S.

45.
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.
Ruckett

46.
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani

47.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch

48.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Apollinaire, Guillaume

49.
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
Dahlberg, Edward

50.
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


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