Art Quotes
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Drawing is the true test of art. (Quote by - Horace)
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses. (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result. (Quote by - John Mason Good)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.] (Quote by - Cicero)
Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. (Quote by - Dante)
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Quote by - Stella Adler)
A picture is a poem without words. (Quote by - Horace)
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Art is a kind of illness. (Quote by - Giacomo Puccini)
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius. (Quote by - Henry Austin Dobson)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. (Quote by - Theophile Gautier)
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve in every part, His pencil out faces, his manners are heart. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. (Quote by - Paul Strand)
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. (Quote by - E.M. Forster)
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. (Quote by - Schumann)
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. (Quote by - Horace)
Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. (Quote by - Hippocrates of Iphicrates)
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. (Quote by - Kojiro Tomita)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Painting is silent poetry. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. (Quote by - M. P. Moussorgsky)
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. (Quote by - Homer)
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. (Quote by - Al Capp)
All art requires courage. (Quote by - Anne Tucker)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. (Quote by - Theodore Dreiser)
Art is difficult, transient is her reward. (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. (Quote by - Alfred Tonnelle)
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
