Art Is Quotes

• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Creative

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

  Gustave Courbet

  Education, Art, Inspiration

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• Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Needs, Emotion

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• Art is inside of you; express yourself.

  Christofer Drew

  Art, Express Yourself

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• All art is knowing when to stop.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Knowing

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• Art is a journey of discovery.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Art, Journey, Discovery

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• Pop art is for everyone.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Photographer, Pops

  Peter Kattenberg, Andy Warhol (2001). “Andy Warhol, Priest: "The Last Supper Comes in Small, Medium, and Large"”, p.40, BRILL

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• Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Art, Target, Aim

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

  Martin Firrell

  Art, Soul, Fart

  franceinlondon.com, September 2004.

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• The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

  Irving Stone

  Art, Maximum, Values

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• What matters in art is not thinking but making.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Thinking, What Matters

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• Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Mirrors

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Art, Fools Day

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• Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Uniting

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.46, e-artnow

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• Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Self, Order

  "Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations" by Sy Safransky, (p. 137), 1990.

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

  John Dewey

  Art, Expression, Individuality

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Chaos

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• Art is not a thing; it is a way.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Way

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• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Materials

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Lying, Untrue

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.52, Harvard University Press

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