Art Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton,
Pablo Picasso,
Oscar Wilde
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| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
| - Scott Adams |
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| The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. |
| - Aristotle |
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| Let me ask you something, what is not art? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| 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. |
| - Leonard Bernstein |
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| A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| 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. |
| - Willa Cather |
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| 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. |
| - Willa Cather |
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| Great art picks up where nature ends. |
| - Marc Chagall |
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| Art is the triumph over chaos. |
| - John Cheever |
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| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| 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 Keith Chesterton |
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| Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. |
| - Jean Cocteau |
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| An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. |
| - Charles Cooley |
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| Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. |
| - Theodore Dreiser |
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| It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. |
| - Loren Eiseley |
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| The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| - Jules Feiffer |
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| Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| 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 |
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| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. |
| - André Gide |
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| 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. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Art is not a thing; it is a way. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Art hath an enemy called ignorance. |
| - Ben Jonson |
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| 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. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. |
| - John Lubbock |
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| The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. |
| - André Malraux |
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| I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. |
| - Henri Matisse |
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| I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. |
| - Henri Matisse |
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| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. |
| - Michelangelo |
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| 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. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| A great artist is always before his time or behind it. |
| - George Moore |
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| 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 |
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| Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. |
| - George Jean Nathan |
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| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| 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. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| Painting is silent poetry. |
| - Plutarch |
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| Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. |
| - Agnes Repplier |
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| Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. |
| - Jean Paul Richter |
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| Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. |
| - John Ruskin |
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| An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. |
| - George Santayana |
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| Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. |
| - Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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| If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. |
| - Robin Tyler |
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| 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. |
| - Kenneth Tynan |
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| What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. |
| - John Updike |
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| An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. |
| - Paul Valéry |
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| Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. |
| - Leonardo da Vinci |
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| 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. |
| - Andy Warhol |
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| An artist's career always begins tomorrow. |
| - James McNeill Whistler |
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| A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| God and other artists are always a little obscure. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Art is spirituality in drag. |
| - Jennifer Yane |
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