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Best Quotes about Art

1.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin

2.
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

3.
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
Jeff Melvoin

4.
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

5.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn

6.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Voznesensky, Andrei

7.
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Barney, Natalie Clifford

8.
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

9.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Tynan, Kenneth

10.
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Gandhi, Indira

11.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Berle, Adolf

12.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
Baldwin, James

13.
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Rosenberg, Harold

14.
I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?
Jafar

15.
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.
Ward Jenkins

16.
What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Nightingale, Florence

18.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent

19.
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren

20.
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

21.
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Johnson, Ben

22.
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
W. Somerset Maugham

23.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Tzara, Tristan

24.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Beecher, Henry Ward

25.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Key, Ellen

26.
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.

27.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Klee, Paul

28.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Lombardi, Vince

29.
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Cioran, E. M.

30.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Bangs, Lester

31.
The heart is the best reflective thinker.
Phillips, Wendell

32.
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

33.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.
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

35.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.
Durrell, Lawrence

36.
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Driscoll, Louise

37.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

38.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Trilling, Lionel

39.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Wilson, Robert

40.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Cocteau, Jean

41.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.
Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Menzies, Robert

44.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Capp, Al

45.
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

46.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

47.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

48.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?
Dworkin, Andrea

49.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Federico Fellini


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