Art Quotes
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
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.
Paul Strand
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams
The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy Kosinski
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
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