Arts and Artists Quotes
134 quotations about Arts and Artists
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
What is art but a way of seeing?
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art is science made clear.
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Authors on Arts and Artists
Lindsay Anderson
Guillaume Apollinaire
Jean Arp
Lester Bangs
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jacques Barzun
Charles Baudelaire
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Thomas Berger
Adolf Berle
Professor Blackie
Christian Nevell Bovee
Elizabeth Bowen
Duke of Buckingham
Anthony Burgess
Albert Camus
Al Capp
Willa Cather
Paul Cezanne
Gilbert K. Chesterton