Best Quotes about Art
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Chopra, Deepak
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
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.
Saint-Victor, Richard of
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
Lao-Tzu
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Cioran, E. M.
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
David Cronenberg
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Thurber, James
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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
Blair, Hugh
All art is an imitation of nature.
Seneca
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
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Weil, Simone
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Cioran, E. M.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Ruskin, John
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.
Varese, Edward
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
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Parker, Dorothy
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Schumann, Robert
Art is a form of catharsis.
Parker, Dorothy
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Ionesco, Eugene
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
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Yu Cao
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
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
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Anderson, Lindsay
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
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Parker, Dorothy
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Rand, Ayn
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.
Brooke McEldowney
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
French, Marilyn
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Ruskin, John
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Tagore, Rabindranath
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Barenboim, Daniel
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Gide, Andre
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Drummond, John
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Dubuffet, Jean
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Lowell, James Russell
Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Bierce, Ambrose
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
Lewis, Sinclair
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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