Art Is Quotes - Page 5

• Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Military, Reading

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Experience, Painting

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• What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Art, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Art, Matter

  "James Joyce, the Citizen and the Artist". Book by Charles Peake, 1977.

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• Art is the child of Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Art, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

  Barbara Mason

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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• Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Skills, Firsts

  Eric Gill (1949). “Art”

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• Art is literacy of the heart

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Heart, Literacy

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• Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Listening, Way

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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Soul, Finals

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.491, Penguin

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• Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

  Lindsay Anderson

  Art, Artist, Problem

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• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

  Kary Mullis

  Fashion, Art, Arbitrary

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• Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Dark, Judging

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

  Philip James Bailey

  Art, Nature, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.357

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• The object of art is to give life shape.

  Jean Anouilh

  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”

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• The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

  Austin O'Malley

  Art, Perfection, Source

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• [Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Science, Opening Your Mind

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• Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Art, Opportunity

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• All art is an imitation of nature.

  Seneca the Elder

  Art, Nature, Imitation

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• Art is a kind of illness.

  Giacomo Puccini

  Art, Kind, Illness

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Taken, Serious

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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