Art Quotes

All art is erotic.

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

Theresa Sjoquist

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already done what he was striving for—distilling places and people and objects to their essential qualities.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

You couldn't make up something that looked so right.

Art is a kind of illness.

Giacomo Puccini

Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.

Aristotle

When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.

Jacinto Benaventey Martinez

Art for art's sake.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

It's clever but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

M. P. Moussorgsky

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Jean Paul Richter

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

Friedrich von Schiller

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

Alfred Tonnelle

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.

John Murray Gibbon

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Art upsets science reassures.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Martin Greenburg

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Caricature is rough truth.

George Meredith

A work of art is an exaggeration.

One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

Paul Klee

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

Paul Klee

One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask including new ones they are just learning how to frame.

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

Art is man's nature nature is God's art.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Kenneth Boulding

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

William Littler

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

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