Quotes about art
art nature divinity
Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess. Anna Jameson
art sight evil
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.
art color design
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
art focus one-deep
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
art regret memorial
How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
art doors mind
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
art excellence goes-on
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.
art italian turkeys
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. Edgar Allan Poe
art should ends
All works of art should begin... at the end.
art looks criticize
Art is to look at not to criticize.
art able wheels
To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.
art way art-is
Art is nothing; it's a way. Elbert Hubbard
art memories air
Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
art business winning
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
art way art-is
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
art pain successful
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
art censorship should
One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring. Eleanor Roosevelt
art thinking justice
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice, they are only interested in art, not in justice. Efraim Zuroff
art believe immortality
I believe in the immortality of all creatures. Egon Schiele
art sight people
I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.
art drawing erotic
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
art erotic filth
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
art modern eternal
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
artist murder crime
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life
art men art-is
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work. Eduardo Chillida
art emotional interesting
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting. Edvard Munch
artist rooms intention
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
art reflection giving
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
artist color saws
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
art long anxiety
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
artist color clash
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
art pain joy
Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.
art war hippie
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.