Art Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Art:
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
~ Thomas Carlyle Quotes, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8.
The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists, man and woman, each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living, breathing, ever-changing, piece of art with an identity of it’s own.
~ Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
~ Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
~ Oscar Wilde.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
~ Federico Fellini.
All art requires courage.
~ Anne Tucker.
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, What Makes Opera Grand?
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~ Wynetka Ann Reynolds.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~ Walter Gropius.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~ G.K. Chesterton.
Art disturbs, science reassures.
~ Georges Braque Quotes, Le Jour et la nuit.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
~ Schumann.
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.
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.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike.
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.
~ Dena Groquet.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~ Odilon Redon.
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
~ Marie Laurencin.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~ George Bernard Shaw.
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