Works Of Art, In My Opinion, Are The Only Objects In The Material Universe To Possess Internal Order, And That Is Why, Though I Don’t Believe That Only Art Matters, I Do Believe In Art For Art’s Sake.
- E. M. Forster
If Art Is To Nourish The Roots Of Our Culture, Society Must Set The Artist Free To Follow His Vision Wherever It Takes Him.
- John F. Kennedy
Art Does Not Exist Only To Entertain, But Also To Challenge One To Think, To Provoke, Even To Disturb, In A Constant Search For Truth.
- Barbra Streisand
The Aim Of Every Artist Is To Arrest Motion, Which Is Life, By Artificial Means And Hold It Fixed So That A Hundred Years Later, When A Stranger Looks At It, It Moves Again Since It Is Life.
- William Faulkner
Technology Adds Nothing To Art. Two Thousand Years Ago, I Could Tell You A Story, And At Any Point During The Story I Could Stop, And Ask, Now Do You Want The Hero To Be Kidnapped, Or Not? But That Would, Of Course, Have Ruined The Story. Part Of The Experience Of Being Entertained Is Sitting Back And Plugging Into Someone Else’s Vision.
- Penn Jillette
Our Creations Must Be Shared To Be Art, And The Easiest Way To Share Our Art Is To Sell It.
- Laura Moncur
It Doesn’t Matter If People Are Interested. It’s About You Taking Your Stuff And Shouting Out Into The Void.
- Jadelr and Cristina Cordova
Art, Like Morality, Consists Of Drawing The Line Somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton
You’re Confusing Product With Process. Most People, When They Criticize, Whether They Like It Or Hate It, They’re Talking About Product. That’s Not Art, That’s The Result Of Art. Art, To Whatever Degree We Can Get A Handle On (I’m Not Sure That We Really Can) Is A Process. It Begins In The Heart And The Mind With The Eyes And Hands.
- Jeff Melvoin
Art Has Never Been Made While Thinking Of Art.
- Niko Stumpo
Another Unsettling Element In Modern Art Is That Common Symptom Of Immaturity, The Dread Of Doing What Has Been Done Before.
- Edith Wharton
All The Arts We Practice Are Apprenticeship. The Big Art Is Our Life.
- M. C. Richards
One Reassuring Thing About Modern Art Is That Things Can’t Be As Bad As They Are Painted.
- M. Walthall Jackson
The Urge To Make Art Or Contemplate Philosophy Does Not Go Away When You Are Sick. Those Urges Just Become Transfigured By Illness.
- Unknown
All Art Is An Imitation Of Nature.
- Seneca
I Don’t Understand Why People Think Everything Has To Have Meaning. While Painting The Mona Lisa Did Leonardo Da Vinci Intend For It To Have Greater Meaning Than A Work Of Art That He Made?
- Devin J. Monroe
Painting Is Silent Poetry, And Poetry Is Painting With The Gift Of Speech.
- Simonides
I Shut My Eyes In Order To See.
- Paul Gauguin
I Never Spend More Than One Hour In A Gallery. That Is As Long As One’s Power Of Appreciation Persists.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Art Is Merely The Refuge Which The Ingenious Have Invented, When They Were Supplied With Food And Women, To Escape The Tediousness Of Life.
If I’ve Learned One Thing In The 14 Years I’ve Been A Full-Time Cartoonist, It’s That You Can Not Let Anyone Else Define Your Professionalism. It Has To Be A Personal Ethos To Which You Adhere Despite Third Party Influence Or Acceptance. The Old Measuring Sticks For Professionalism Are Going Away And Now More Than Ever It’s Time For Independent Creatives To Set The Bar. Set It High.
- Scott R. Kurtz
Artists Who Seek Perfection In Everything Are Those Who Cannot Attain It In Anything.
- Eugene Delacroix
I Passionately Hate The Idea Of Being With It, I Think An Artist Has Always To Be Out Of Step With His Time.
- Orson Welles
The Art Of Art, The Glory Of Expression And The Sunshine Of The Light Of Letters, Is Simplicity.
- Walt Whitman
What We Play Is Life.
- Louis Armstrong
There Is No Abstract Art. You Must Always Start With Something. Afterward You Can Remove All Traces Of Reality.
- Pablo Picasso
[Abstract Art Is] A Product Of The Untalented, Sold By The Unprincipled To The Utterly Bewildered.
- Al Capp
We Must Never Forget That Art Is Not A Form Of Propaganda; It Is A Form Of Truth.
Art Is The Desire Of A Man To Express Himself, To Record The Reactions Of His Personality To The World He Lives In.
- Amy Lowell
I Paint My Own Reality. The Only Thing I Know Is That I Paint Because I Need To, And I Paint Whatever Passes Through My Head Without Any Other Consideration.
- Frida Kahlo
Life Isn’t Long Enough For Love And Art.
The Aim Of Art Is To Represent Not The Outward Appearance Of Things, But Their Inward Significance.
- Aristotle
Why Should I Buy Expensive Art When I Can Make My Own.
- Piero Milani
Art Is Making Something Out Of Nothing And Selling It.
- Frank Zappa
I Know Just How Frustrating It Can Be When You’re Tired And Exhausted, But You Still Want To Draw Something.
- Ward Jenkins
Art Is On The Side Of The Oppressed. Think Before You Shudder At The Simplistic Dictum And Its Heretical Definition Of The Freedom Of Art. For If Art Is Freedom Of The Spirit, How Can It Exist Within The Oppressors?
To Live A Creative Life, We Must Lose Our Fear Of Being Wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
I Believe That If It Were Left To Artists To Choose Their Own Labels, Most Would Choose None.
- Ben Shahn
What I Dream Of Is An Art Of Balance.
- Henri Matisse
There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art; And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It Than Through Art.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The More Minimal The Art, The More Maximum The Explination.
- Hilton Kramer
Painting In Watercolor Is Like Walking A Tight-Rope; One Must Achieve A Perfect Balance Between What The Paint Wants To Do And What The Artist Wants To Do, Or All Is Lost.
- Mary C. Taylor
Let Each Man Exercise The Art He Knows.
- Aristophanes
I Merely Took The Energy It Takes To Pout And Wrote Some Blues.
- Duke Ellington
I Suppose No Matter What I’m Drawing, There Will Always Be Some Sort Of Question In My Mind About It. A Work Of Art (Even Cartoon Art)Is Never Really Finished; It Is Abandoned.
- Brooke McEldowney
I Say That Good Painters Imitated Nature; But That Bad Ones Vomited It.
- Miguel de Cervantes
The Painting Has A Life Of Its Own. I Try To Let It Come Through.
- Jackson Pollock
The Position Of The Artist Is Humble. He Is Essentially A Channel.
- Piet Mondrian
There Are Painters Who Transform The Sun To A Yellow Spot, But There Are Others Who With The Help Of Their Art And Their Intelligence, Transform A Yellow Spot Into The Sun.
Creativity Is Allowing Yourself To Make Mistakes. Art Is Knowing Which Ones To Keep.
- Scott Adams
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