Quotes about art

"Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art"

Unknown, Source on art   

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

Unknown, Source on art   

"Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence."

Unknown, Source on art   

"Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle."

Updike, John on art   

"Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs."

Varese, Edward on art   

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

Voznesensky, Andrei on art   

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

Warhol, Andy on art
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"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."

Waugh, Evelyn on art   

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."

Weil, Simone on art   

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

West, Rebecca on art   

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

Whitehead, Alfred North on art   

"In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One"

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist."

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"All art is quite useless."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

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

Wilson, Robert on art   

"The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness."

Winkelmann on art   

"This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave."

Wolfe, Thomas on art   

"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

Wolfe, Thomas on art   

"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."

Woodberry, George E. on art   

"Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?"

Wordsworth, William on art   

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on art   

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

Yu Cao on art   

"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 on art   

"I am an artist I am here to live out loud."

Zola, Emile on art   

"So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)"

Hesse, Hermann on art   

"This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster."

Fitch, Janet on art   

"Possibly the worst break up line ever: it's not me, it's you."

Anonymous on art   

"Ik denk dat de emoties en percepties waar ik toegang tot heb als een zwart iemand en als een vrouwelijk iemand, ruimer zijn dan iemand die geen van beide is... Dus lijkt het me dat dit gegeven m'n leefwereld niet verkleind heeft als zwarte, vrouwelijke schrijver. Dit maakte m'n leefwereld alleen maar groter."

Morrison, Toni on art   

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"Things happen for a reason. Moods change from days to seasons, If anything instead of pleasing them, please yourself & just leave'em"

James, Authentic on art   

"A true artist looks at lyrics, pictures, stories, and paintings like a breath of fresh air."

BPBEE on art   

" My inspiration is Art....Because without Art we would just be stuck with reality... By Daniel R. Lynch"

Daniel R. Lynch on art   

"YOU WILL ONLY BECOME WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING RIGHT NOW. Though you cannot go back and make a brand new start, my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end. "

Maxwell, John C. on art
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"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl."

The Great, Frederick on art   

"Patience is an art. "

Tadj Abelkader on art   

"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on art