Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes About - art

• A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ... Hedy Lamarr {view}
• A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ... George Edward Moore {view}
• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ... Albert Camus {view}
• A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ... Michelangelo {view}
• A painting that is well composed is half finished. ... Pierre Bonnard {view}
• A picture is a poem without words. ... Horace {view}
• A picture is worth a thousand words. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
• A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. ... Henry Moore {view}
• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
• A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ... Gertrude Stein {view}
• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ... Al Capp {view}
• Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ... Marshall McLuhan {view}
• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. ... Marshall McLuhan {view}
• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ... Federico Fellini {view}
• All art is but imitation of nature. ... Lucius Annaeus Seneca {view}
• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ... Charles Horton Cooley {view}
• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ... George Santayana {view}
• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ... Henry Miller {view}
• An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. ... Edgard Varese {view}
• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ... James Whistler {view}
• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. ... Andy Warhol {view}
• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ... Paul Valery {view}
• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ... Andre Gide {view}
• Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
• Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. ... Roy Lichtenstein {view}
• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ... Thomas Merton {view}
• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ... Frank Lloyd Wright {view}
• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ... Gwendolyn Brooks {view}
• Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. ... Robert Delaunay {view}
• Art is a revolt against fate.All art is a revolt against man's fate. ... Andre Malraux {view}
• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ... Khalil Gibran {view}
• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. ... Octavio Paz {view}
• Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ... Paul Gauguin {view}
• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. ... Theodor Adorno {view}
• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. ... Henry A. Kissinger {view}
• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ... John Ruskin {view}
• Art is not a thing; it is a way. ... Elbert Hubbard {view}
• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ... Harry S. Truman {view}
• Art is science made clear. ... Wilson Mizner {view}
• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. ... Kary Mullis {view}
• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ... Amy Lowell {view}
• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ... Twyla Tharp {view}
• Art is the proper task of life. ... Friedrich Nietzsche {view}
• Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ... Friedrich Schiller {view}
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ... Theodore Dreiser {view}
• Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. ... Alfred de Vigny {view}
• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. ... Jean Cocteau {view}
• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ... Stephen Sondheim {view}
• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. ... Anish Kapoor {view}
• Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ... Robert Smithson {view}
• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ... Gustave Flaubert {view}
• By the work one knows the workman. ... Jean de La Fontaine {view}
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ... Scott Adams {view}
• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. ... Thomas Wolfe {view}
• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ... Henri Matisse {view}
• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. ... Salvador Dali {view}
• Even a true artist does not always produce art. ... Carroll O'Connor {view}
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ... Henry Ward Beecher {view}
• Every artist was first an amateur. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
• Every artist writes his own autobiography. ... Havelock Ellis {view}
• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ... Isaac Bashevis Singer {view}
• Every good painter paints what he is. ... Jackson Pollock {view}
• Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. ... Miguel Angel Ruiz {view}
• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ... Edward Steichen {view}
• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ... W. Somerset Maugham {view}
• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. ... Louis Kahn {view}
• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. ... Francis Bacon {view}
• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ... John Ruskin {view}
• Great art picks up where nature ends. ... Marc Chagall {view}
• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ... Auguste Rodin {view}
• I cry out for order and find it only in art. ... Helen Hayes {view}
• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ... Henri Matisse {view}
• I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. ... Francis Ford Coppola {view}
• I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe {view}
• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ... Georgia O'Keeffe {view}
• I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. ... Roy Lichtenstein {view}
• I paint with shapes. ... Alexander Calder {view}
• I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. ... Robert Indiana {view}
• I think about my work every minute of the day. ... Jeff Koons {view}
• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. ... Jodie Foster {view}
• I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. ... Robert Indiana {view}
• I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. ... Robert Indiana {view}
• I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ... Andy Warhol {view}
• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. ... Barbra Streisand {view}
• I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. ... Laurie Anderson {view}
• If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. ... Arne Jacobsen {view}
• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. ... Honore de Balzac {view}
• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ... Anais Nin {view}
• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ... Vincent Van Gogh {view}
• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ... Lionel Trilling {view}
• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ... Damien Hirst {view}
• In art as in love, instinct is enough. ... Anatole France {view}
• In art the best is good enough. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ... Henry Moore {view}
• It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. ... Max Eastman {view}
• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. ... Igor Stravinsky {view}
• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. ... Robert Delaunay {view}
• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
• Minimal art went nowhere. ... Sol LeWitt {view}
• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ... John Ciardi {view}
• Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. ... Franz Liszt {view}
• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. ... Peter De Vries {view}
• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. ... Tadao Ando {view}
• My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ... Clara Schumann {view}
• My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. ... Paul Getty {view}
• My painting does not come from the easel. ... Jackson Pollock {view}
• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ... Oscar Wilde {view}
• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ... Theodore Bikel {view}
• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ... Ansel Adams {view}
• Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ... Gustave Flaubert {view}
• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ... Salvador Dali {view}
• Painting is by nature a luminous language. ... Robert Delaunay {view}
• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ... Edgar Degas {view}
• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
• Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
• Personality is everything in art and poetry. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ... Edward Steichen {view}
• Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ... Dorothea Lange {view}
• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ... William Wordsworth {view}
• Pictures must not be too picturesque. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
• Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. ... Arthur Erickson {view}
• Rules and models destroy genius and art. ... William Hazlitt {view}
• So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ... Alexander Pope {view}
• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
• That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. ... James Taylor {view}
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ... Aristotle {view}
• 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. ... William Faulkner {view}
• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ... Walt Whitman {view}
• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ... Novalis {view}
• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ... Emile Zola {view}
• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. ... Cyril Connolly {view}
• The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ... Eugene Delacroix {view}
• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ... Paul Strand {view}
• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. ... Hendrik Willem Van Loon {view}
• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. ... Paul Getty {view}
• The beginning is the most important part of the work. ... Plato {view}
• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. ... David Herbert Lawrence {view}
• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ... Henri Cartier-Bresson {view}
• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ... Dale Carnegie {view}
• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ... Friedrich Nietzsche {view}
• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. ... Abraham Lincoln {view}
• The history of art is the history of revivals. ... Samuel Butler {view}
• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ... Paul Gauguin {view}
• The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ... David Hockney {view}
• The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ... Ellen Key {view}
• The perfection of art is to conceal art. ... Quintilian {view}
• The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. ... Jerzy Kosinski {view}
• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. ... Jerzy Kosinski {view}
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ... Pablo Picasso {view}
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. ... Theodor Adorno {view}
• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. ... Salvador Dali {view}
• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ... Michelangelo {view}
• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. ... Carl Rogers {view}
• The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. ... Henry Miller {view}
• The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ... Elia Kazan {view}
• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ... Ansel Adams {view}
• Things are beautiful if you love them. ... Jean Anouilh {view}
• This world is but a canvas to our imagination. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
• Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ... Henri Matisse {view}
• To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. ... Alexander Calder {view}
• To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. ... Robert Mapplethorpe {view}
• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ... E. M. Forster {view}
• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. ... Henri Cartier-Bresson {view}
• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. ... Leo Tolstoy {view}
• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ... Robert Schumann {view}
• Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ... Arthur Schopenhauer {view}
• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ... Michelangelo {view}
• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ... Albert Einstein {view}
• Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place. ... Keanu Reeves {view}