Art Is Quotes - Page 2

• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Believe, Order

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Nature, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Emotion

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Creative, Would Be

  Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Creative, Principles

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

  Henri Matisse

  Funny, Art, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Beauty, Art, Flower

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• Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Nature, Truth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

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• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

  Octavio Paz

  Beauty, Art, Games

  Octavio Paz (1991). “On Poets and Others”, p.74, Arcade Publishing

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Brain, Intuition

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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  The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Creativity, Fire

  Southwestern Art Vol. 6, p. 20, 1977.

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Reality, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.60, Penguin

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• The object of Art is to give life a shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Giving

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