Quotes on art
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throb
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Percy Wynham Lewis Quotes
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
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Claes Oldenburg Quotes
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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John Updike Quotes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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Isak Dineson Quotes
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
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.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Robert Frost Quotes
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
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Kojiro Tomita Quotes
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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George Santayana Quotes
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
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James McNeill Whistler Quotes
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
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Meghan Quotes
Art is the struggle to understand.
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Audrey Foris Quotes
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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Leonard Bernstein Quotes
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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Edgard Varese Quotes
Art is a kind of illness.
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Giacomo Puccini Quotes
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
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Ben Jonson Quotes
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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Stella Adler Quotes
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
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Jules Feiffer Quotes
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
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Jean Cocteau Quotes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Art is pictures straight from the heart.
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Ben Quotes
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
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Andy Warhol Quotes
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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Jean Paul Richter Quotes
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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Dante Alighieri Quotes
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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John Anthony Ciardi Quotes
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
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Henry Miller Quotes
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
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Lincoln Steffens Quotes
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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Amy Lowell Quotes
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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George Moore Quotes
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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Jean Cocteau Quotes
Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art.
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James Bailey Quotes
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
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Leonardo DaVinci Quotes
Art is the triumph over chaos.
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John Cheever Quotes
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Florence Nightingale Quotes
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
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Glenn Close Quotes
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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John Updike Quotes
With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words: they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
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Aaron Howard Quotes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
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Corri Alius Quotes
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Aristotle Quotes
Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.
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Ernst Levy Quotes
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.
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Star Richés Quotes
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
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Mark Twain Quotes
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Scott Adams Quotes
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Willa Cather Quotes
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.
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E.M. Forster Quotes
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
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Dena Groquet Quotes
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Twyla Tharp Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Theodore Dreiser Quotes
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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Kenneth Tynan Quotes
Art, science, philosophy, religion - each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
All art requires courage.
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Anne Tucker Quotes
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Willa Cather Quotes
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.
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William Faulkner Quotes
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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John Ruskin Quotes
Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Quotes
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
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Leonardo DaVinci Quotes