Quotes about art




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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."

Davis, Angela Y. on art    Share


"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."

Debord, Guy on art    Share

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Delacroix, Eugene on art    Share

"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."

Drummond, John on art    Share

"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."

Dubuffet, Jean on art    Share

"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination."

Durrell, Lawrence on art    Share

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."

Eastman, Max on art    Share

"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

Eliot, T. S. on art    Share

"Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same."

Eliot, T. S. on art    Share

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

Ellis, Havelock on art    Share

"The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"The true poem is the poet's mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

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"New arts destroy the old."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Art is the path of the creator to his work."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

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"The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Artists must be sacrificed to their art."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art    Share

"Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."

Farnham, Eliza on art    Share

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

Faulkner, William on art
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"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."

Fischer, Ernst on art    Share

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

Fisher, Carrie on art
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"Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity."

Forster, Edward M. on art    Share

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

France, Anatole on art    Share

"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear."

French, Marilyn on art    Share

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model."

Frye, Northrop on art    Share

"Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on art    Share

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."

Gauguin, Paul on art    Share

"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."

Geldzahler, Henry on art    Share

"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."

Gide, Andre on art    Share

"Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Gill, Eric on art    Share

"Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."

Ginsberg, Allen on art    Share

"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

Godard, Jean-Luc on art    Share

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art    Share

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