Art quotes

Auden W.H. 1907-1973

Art is born of humiliation.

Bailey Philip James 1816-1902

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Barnes Julian 1946-

Flaubert's Parrot

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere.At least, not in the  English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French for life-jacket.

Barzun Jacques 1907

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Bell Clive 1881-1964

Art

Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Bellow Saul 1915

Writers at Work

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm...an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Bergson Henri 1859-1941

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the  generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact  which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Bernard Claude 1812-1878

Art is I, science is we.

Bismarck Prince Otto von 1815-1898

Politics is the art of the possible.

Blake William 1757-1827

Jerusalem

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

Blake William 1757-1827

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

Braque Georges 1882-1963

Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

„Old Pictures in Florence"

Works done least rapidly, Art most cherishes.

Cocteau Jean 1889-1963

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Constant Benjamin 1767-1834

Art for art's sake, ... perverts art.

Cort David

Sex is the great amateur art.

Degas Edgar 1834-1917

Art is vice.You don't marry it legitimately, you  rape it.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

Lothair

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Dryden John 1631-1700

„Prologue to the University of Oxon"

So poetry, which is in Oxford made
An art, in London only is a trade.

Dunlop Ian 1925-

The shock of the new: seven historic exibitions of modern art.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

The Conduct of Life

Art is a jealous mistress.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Epstein Sir Jacob 1880-1959

(attributed)

Why don't they stick to murder and leave art to us?

Forster E.M. 1879-1970

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his  reach.He mixes this thing with his normal experiences  and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

Gardner John W.1912-

Art gropes, it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself  and to everthing around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

Gide André 1869-1951

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Art is called art because it is not nature.

Goethe Johann 1749-1832

Italienische Reise

Since it is a joy to have benefit of what is good, it is a greater one to experience what is better,and in art the best is good enough.

Goethe Johann 1749-1832

For the rest of it, the last and greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

Gombrich Ernst 1909-

There is no such thing as art. There are  only artists.

Hand Learned 1872-1961

The art of publicity is a black art.

Hazlitt William 1778-1830

The Round Table

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Inge William R. 1860-1954

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Jonson Ben c. 1573-1637

Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging... Shakespeare wanted art.

Jonson Ben c.1573-1637

Epicene

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936

„The Conundrum of the Workshops"

We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoop, as he whooped of old:
„It's clever, but is it Art?"

 

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