Arts and Artists Quotes
134 quotations about Arts and Artists
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
A picture is a poem without words.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
Art, that great undogmatized church.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Caricature is rough truth.
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