Art quotations
Klee Paul 1879-1940
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Lawson Sonia 1934-
You're not meant to understand-They're bloody works of art.
Lewis Sinclair 1885-1951
Babbitt
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
Lewis Wyndham 1882-1957
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
‚,A Psalm of Life"
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
McLuhan Marshall 1911-1980
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
McLuthan Marshall 1911-1980
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Malraux André 1901-1976
Les Voix du silence
Art is a revolt against fate.
Marquis Don 1878-1937
archy and mehitabel
procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Msefield John 1878-1967
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
Melbourne William Lamb 2nd Lord 1779-1848
God help the Minister that meddles with art!
Merrill James 1926-
,‚Museum Piece"
The good grey guardians of art
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.
Here dozes one against the wall,
Disposed upon a funeral chair.
A Degas dancer pirouettes
Upon the parting of his hair.
Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592
Essays
Living is my job and my art.
Moore George 1852-1933
Hail and Farewell:Ave
Art must be parochial in the beginning to become cosmopolitan in the end.
Motherwell Robert 1915-1991
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life-rebellious,individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
Mussorgsky Modeste Petrovich 1839-1881
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Nabokov Vladimir 1899-1977
Strong Opinions
A work of art has no importance whatever to society.
It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
Nin Anaïs 1903-1977
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning it.
Palma Brian
No Art has a shorter life than Political Art.
Pasternak Boris 1890-1960
Doctor Zhivago
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Pater Walter 1839-1894
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Picasso Pablo 1881-1973
We all know that Art is not truth.Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Picasso Pablo 1881-1973
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Plath Sylvia 1932-1963
„Lady Lazarus"
Dying,
Is an art, like everything else.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Criticism
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace
The naked nature and the living grace,
With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part,
And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Criticism
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
„Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
Imitations of Horace
Not to admire, is all the art I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Puccini Giacomo 1858-1924
Art is a kind of illness.
Read Sir Herbert 1893-1968
The Meaning of Art
Art is ...pattern informed by sensibility.
Reinhardt Adina
Art disease is caused by a hardening of the categories.
Reynold Gillian
Art is life rearranged until it makes sense.
Reynolds Sir joshua 1723-1792
Discourses on Art
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it.
Rossetti Dante Gabriel 1828-1882
Conception,my boy, fundamental brainwork, is what makes the difference in all art.
Ruskin John 1919-1900
The Two Paths
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
Santayana George 1863-1952
Art is a delayed echo.
Shawn Ted 1891-1972
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Sontag Susan 1933
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Stark Freya 1893-1993
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
There is but one art, to omit.
Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910
All art has this characteristic - it unites people.
Tolstoy Leo 1828-1910
Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feellings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Weston Edward 1986-1958
Art is based on order. The world is full of „sloppy Bohemians" and their work betrays them.
Whistler James McNeill 1834-1903
Mr Whistler's „Ten O'Clock"
Art is upon the Town!
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
Dialogues
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Woodcock George 1904-1979
It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„Ego Dominus Tuus"
The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours,
The sentimentalist himself; while art
Is but a vision of reality.
The Zohar
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
