Famous Quotes
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
- Honore De Balzac on Art
- If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
- Sri Chinmoy on Art
- If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
- Mason Cooley on Art
- If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
- William Morris on Art
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
- Leo Burnett on Art
- If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Art
- Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
- Lionel Trilling on Art
- 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.
- Ernst Fischer on Art
- In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
- Damien Hirst on Art
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- Camille Paglia on Art
- In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
- Patti Smith on Art
- In art as in love, instinct is enough.
- Anatole France on Art
- In art the best is good enough.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore on Art
- In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Art
- In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
- Alberto Giacometti on Art
- In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
- Kristin Scott Thomas on Art
- In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Edward Hopper on Art
- In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Art
- In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Georg Cantor on Art
- In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
- Theodore Bikel on Art
- In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall on Art
- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
- Thomas Huxley on Art
- In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield on Art
- In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
- Terry Pratchett on Art
- In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
- In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Art
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Susan Sontag on Art
- Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
- James Joyce on Art
- Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
- Havelock Ellis on Art
- It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
- Isadora Duncan on Art
- It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
- Henry Moore on Art
- It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
- Jack White on Art
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden on Art
- It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Art
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
- Max Eastman on Art
- It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
- Henry James on Art
- It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Nicolas Chamfort on Art
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- Charles Baudelaire on Art
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
- John Ruskin on Art
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- 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.
- Tom Stoppard on Art
- It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
- Wilson Mizner on Art
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