Quotes about art




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

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"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."

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

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

Updike, John on art    Share

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

Varese, Edward on art    Share

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

Voznesensky, Andrei on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Weil, Simone on art    Share

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

West, Rebecca on art    Share

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

Whitehead, Alfred North on art    Share

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

Wilde, Oscar on art    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Wilde, Oscar on art    Share

"All art is quite useless."

Wilde, Oscar on art    Share

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

Wilde, Oscar on art    Share

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

Wilson, Robert on art    Share

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

Winkelmann on art    Share

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

Wolfe, Thomas on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Woodberry, George E. on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd on art    Share

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

Yu Cao on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Zola, Emile on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Fitch, Janet on art    Share

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

Anonymous on art    Share

"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    Share

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

Picasso, Pablo on art    Share

"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    Share

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

BPBEE on art    Share

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

Daniel R. Lynch on art    Share

"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    Share

"Patience is an art. "

Tadj Abelkader on art    Share

"Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on art    Share

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