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Art is a diverse range of human activity. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, there are three classical branches of visual art: painting, sculpture and architecture.
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"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
W. Somerset Maugham"It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found."
Wilson Mizner"The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class."
Louis Dudek"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza."
Robert Indiana"An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public."
Maurice Chevalier"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
William Butler Yeats"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Leonardo da Vinci"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"
Alfred de Vigny"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
Louis Kahn"Life is short, the art long."
Hippocrates"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away."
Donald Judd"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."
Gustave Courbet"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
William Wordsworth"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
Harry S Truman"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
Julia Morgan"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
William Hazlitt"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
Robert Owen"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
James Humes"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
Walter Savage Landor"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."
Paracelsus"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sun Tzu"Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny."
Georges Braque"I paint with shapes."
Alexander Calder"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"Wherever art appears, life disappears."
Robert Motherwell"Art is anything people do with distinction."
Louis Dudek"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."
James Huneker"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
Christo"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
Valentino Rossi"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."
Willem de Kooning"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
Jean Cocteau"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
Helen Hayes"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
Alfred de Vigny"Art is science made clear."
Wilson Mizner"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
Igor Stravinsky"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Edgar Degas"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
Paul Valery"In art as in love, instinct is enough."
Anatole France"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
Honore de Balzac"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
Marshall McLuhan"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
Winston Churchill"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."
Harold Coffin"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"
Jef I. Richards"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."
Henri Matisse"My painting does not come from the easel."
Jackson Pollock"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space."
David Hockney"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
Franz Liszt"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
Eugene Delacroix"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
Gwendolyn Brooks"Art is pattern informed by sensibility."
Herbert Read"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
Henry Kissinger"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
Hedy Lamarr"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect."
Alexander Calder"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."
George Sand"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."
Damien Hirst"Great artists suffer for the people."
Marvin Gaye"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Samuel Johnson"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
Frederic Chopin"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."
Glenn Gould"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
Boris Pasternak"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."
Jawaharlal Nehru"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."
Henry Ossawa Tanner"Art depends on luck and talent."
Francis Ford Coppola"The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes."
David Rockefeller"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."
Robert Quillen"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Friedrich Nietzsche"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
Ellen Key"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
William Hazlitt"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
Langston Hughes"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries."
Jimmy Carter"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Salvador Dali"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas"A picture is a poem without words."
Horace"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."
Andrew Wyeth"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."
John Singer Sargent"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
Jean Rostand"Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views."
Mary Schmich"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."
Robert Delaunay"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"
Ashton Kutcher"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."
Douglas Horton"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
Constantin Brancusi"I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art."
Jay Kay"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."
Lionel Trilling"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."
John Zorn"Nothing is art if it does not come from nature."
Antoni Gaudi"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion."
Kary Mullis"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. -Henri Cartier"
Bresson"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
Jean Cocteau"Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings."
David Bowie"Patience is the art of hoping."
Luc de Clapiers"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
Lord Byron"In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives."
Bjarke Ingels"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
Walt Whitman"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
John Berger"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
Leonardo da Vinci"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
Michelangelo"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
Paul Klee"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
Claude Monet"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp"The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."
Jackson Pollock"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"
Ludwig van Beethoven"I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture."
David Hockney"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."
Salvador Dali"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
Francis Bacon"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
Novalis"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
Tadao Ando"Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown."
Kiki Smith"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."
Chinua Achebe"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."
Malcolm Forbes"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
Hippocrates"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
Albert Einstein"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
Will Rogers"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many."
Robert Indiana"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists."
Robert Indiana"I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it."
Laurie Anderson"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."
Henry Moore"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
Lionel Trilling"History develops, art stands still."
E. M. Forster"Art is eternal, but life is short."
Evelyn de Morgan"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
Joseph Conrad"All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics."
August Wilson"Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home."
Tamara Taylor"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
Michelangelo"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
Walt Disney"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
Alfred Stieglitz"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
William Osler"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"
James Montgomery"Cleanliness is the scourge of art."
Craig Brown"An empty canvas is full."
Robert Rauschenberg"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."
Balthus"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
Edward Hopper"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler"The best artists know what to leave out."
Charles de Lint"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James Whistler"Art is the triumph over chaos."
John Cheever"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."
Jim Hodges"I will preach with my brush."
Henry Ossawa Tanner"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
W. Somerset Maugham"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."
Fran Lebowitz"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Ezra Pound"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."
J. Paul Getty"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
Marc Chagall"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap."
Marcel Duchamp"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
Keith Haring"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -Edward G. Bulwer"
Lytton"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
Octavia E. Butler"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John W. Gardner"Nature is the art of God."
Dante Alighieri"Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me."
Joakim Noah"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
Walter Murch"We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art."
Chris Bangle"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
Constantin Stanislavski"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."
Anish Kapoor"Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning."
Miguel de Unamuno"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
William Morris"Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy."
JR"Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will."
Anselm Kiefer"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
George Bernard Shaw"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
Daniel Bell"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
Kurt Vonnegut"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."
Barbra Streisand"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
John Ruskin"Art is Art. Everything else is everything else."
Ad Reinhardt"Every good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
Thomas Wolfe"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful."
Robert Mapplethorpe"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
David Hockney"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant."
Alfred Eisenstaedt"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Gustave Flaubert"Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees."
Marcel Proust"It's clever, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Max Eastman"When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another."
Sol LeWitt"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
Oscar Wilde"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
Ansel Adams"Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
Beck"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
Joshua Reynolds"Art is the daughter of freedom."
Friedrich Schiller"Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics."
Victor Pinchuk"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Voltaire"In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait."
Francisco Goya"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."
Thomas Berger"Democracy is the art of thinking independently together."
Alexander Meiklejohn"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds."
Theo Jansen"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."
Mark Van Doren"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them."
Paul Hawken"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
Ernest Benn"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
Philip James Bailey"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
Christopher Marlowe"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
Don Marquis"One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on."
Danica McKellar"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
Ray Bradbury"Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code."
Ellen Ullman"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."
John Wooden"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can."
Jim Dine"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."
Jean Cocteau"Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."
Andre Malraux"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul."
Kate Chopin"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."
Henri Matisse"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."
Claude Monet"Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty."
Jacques Prevert"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
Federico Fellini"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."
Theodor W. Adorno"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
Clara Schumann"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."
Ernst Fischer"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
Henry David Thoreau"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."
Elizabeth Bowen"If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it."
William Morris"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."
Iris Murdoch"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."
Raoul Dufy"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
J. D. Salinger"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
Paul Cezanne"Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art."
Brandon Boyd"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
Norman McLaren"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."
Harvey Fierstein"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."
Thomas Shadwell"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence J. Peter"I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality."
Lorraine Hansberry"The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that."
Michael Moore"Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way."
David Frost"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation."
Russell Simmons"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
Groucho Marx"We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations."
Sharon Salzberg"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
Albert Camus"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
Francis Ford Coppola"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Unknown"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon"The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her."
William Morris Hunt"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."
Henri Poincare"Entertainment and art are not isolated."
Martin Kippenberger"Art is all in the details."
Christian Marclay"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
H. L. Mencken"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
Luc de Clapiers"Surprise is key in all art."
Oscar Niemeyer"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"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind."
James Taylor"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
Charles Bukowski"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."
Diane Arbus"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
Henry Moore"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
Stephen Sondheim"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
Paul Cezanne"When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear."
Alfred Eisenstaedt"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
Dorothea Lange"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
Salvador Dali"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
Ernst Fischer"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Ambrose Bierce"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"A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas."
Charles Dudley Warner"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
Emily Carr"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
John Ruskin"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
Abraham Lincoln"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."
Balthus"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"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
Ellen Key"Patience is the art of concealing your impatience."
Guy Kawasaki"Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within."
Lady Bird Johnson"I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture."
Kenny Leon"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move."
Ossie Davis"Cooking well, with love, is an art."
Asha Bhosle"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
John Lasseter"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol"Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali."
Don King"It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."
Thich Nhat Hanh"There is no must in art because art is free."
Wassily Kandinsky"Let each man exercise the art he knows."
Aristophanes"All art is erotic."
Gustav Klimt"Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. -Olivia Newton"
John"Art is I; science is we."
Claude Bernard"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
Albert Camus"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms."
Roy Lichtenstein"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
Octavio Paz"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."
E. M. Forster"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
Paul Cezanne"The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear."
John James Audubon"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Anatole France"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."
Ludwig van Beethoven"Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings."
Alan Moore"Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it."
Santiago Calatrava"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
John Donne"A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula."
Reed Morano"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
Jackson Pollock"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
Jerzy Kosinski"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
Agnes Martin"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Saul Bellow"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."
Isaac Bashevis Singer"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Frank Zappa"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
Jerzy Kosinski"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."
Corita Kent"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."
Le Corbusier"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
Logan Pearsall Smith"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
Robert Motherwell"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
Jean Cocteau"Every artist writes his own autobiography."
Havelock Ellis"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."
Friedrich Schiller"My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind."
Agnes Martin"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."
Paulo Coelho"Baking is both an art and a science."
Sherry Yard"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
Samuel Butler"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
Elliott Erwitt"I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it."
John Williams"Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art."
Reinhold Messner"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Tom Stoppard"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
William Blake"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."
Modest Mussorgsky"I am not strong on perfection."
Jasper Johns"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo da Vinci"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself."
Roy Lichtenstein"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild."
Dante Alighieri"Art is what defines us, what makes us human."
Jan Vogler"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
Ludwig Erhard"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney"You begin with the possibilities of the material."
Robert Rauschenberg"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
Quintilian"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Andre Gide"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Robert Schumann"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
Gian Carlo Menotti"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
Frank Lloyd Wright"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
Albert Camus"Insight is the first condition of Art."
George Henry Lewes"A painting that is well composed is half finished."
Pierre Bonnard"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."
Robert Delaunay"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
Elia Kazan"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
Henri Matisse"When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God."
Robert Mapplethorpe"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"An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it."
Andrei Tarkovsky"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."
Helen Frankenthaler"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Ambrose Bierce"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. -Jean"
Michel Basquiat"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."
Gunter Grass"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
K. D. Lang"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."
Giotto di Bondone"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
Chuck Close"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
Gustave Flaubert"Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them."
Paul Samuelson"With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'"
Yayoi Kusama"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
Napoleon Bonaparte"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
Henry Hazlitt"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
Charles Eames"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
Theodore Bikel"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly."
Raoul Dufy"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Andy Warhol"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
Rene Magritte"In art, the obvious is a sin."
Edward Dmytryk"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Gustave Flaubert"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."
Ad Reinhardt"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."
Alfred Sisley"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
Oscar Wilde"Painting and writing are solitary arts."
Conrad Hall"Paint the essential character of things."
Camille Pissarro"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."
Malcolm de Chazal"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
Vladimir Nabokov"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Khalil Gibran"To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing."
Philip Guston"There is nothing new in art except talent."
Anton Chekhov"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
Lewis Mumford"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."
Isaac Bashevis Singer"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
Tony Blair"The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough."
George Edward Moore"Art is for everybody."
Keith Haring"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."
Jeanette Winterson"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. -Jean"
Michel Basquiat"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
Andy Warhol"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
William Shakespeare"African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations."
Mos Def"Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art."
Jerry Saltz"I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize."
Jodie Foster"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 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"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Marshall McLuhan"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."
Jacques Chirac"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
Ansel Adams"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
Roy Lichtenstein"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
John Ciardi"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
Ansel Adams"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
Agnes Martin"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Alexander Pope"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
Henry Miller"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
Theodore Dreiser"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
Paul Gauguin"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
Jackie Kennedy"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."
Paul Klee"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
Edward Steichen"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
Michelangelo"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall"It is hard to separate the art from the artist."
Juice Wrld"There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art."
Anthony Trollope"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
D. H. Lawrence"I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization."
Tony Hawk"Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily."
Christopher Voss"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
D. H. Lawrence"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
Eugene Ionesco"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
George Santayana"The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it."
Gustave Courbet"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."
Vanessa Mae"I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something."
Eddie Vedder"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."
George Edward Moore"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
Alfred Eisenstaedt"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Ambrose Bierce"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
Arne Jacobsen"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
Robert Rauschenberg"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures."
Wassily Kandinsky"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"Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
Edgard Varese"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
Iris Murdoch"All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology."
George Lucas"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
Pablo Picasso"Trying to force creativity is never good."
Sarah McLachlan"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
Arthur Erickson"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Lloyd Wright"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
Thornton Wilder"Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there."
Prince"Who said that looking good is not a task? There are so many girls with a well maintained body, but will they be able to walk the beachside in front of the camera wearing a swimsuit? Carrying your body in a certain manner to look sexy is also an art."
Taapsee Pannu"When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art."
Victoria Osteen"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
Henri Matisse"I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman."
Peter Max"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Edward Steichen"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
Barbara Hepworth"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
Auguste Rodin"Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system."
Andrew Stanton"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
Leonardo da Vinci"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant"Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books."
Karen Salmansohn"Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant."
Glennon Doyle Melton"Painting is by nature a luminous language."
Robert Delaunay"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
Andy Warhol"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
Robert Musil"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
Don Miguel Ruiz"Art must take reality by surprise."
Francoise Sagan"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher"The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."
Theodor W. Adorno"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
George Bernard Shaw"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal."
Egon Schiele"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture."
Arthur Erickson"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
Carl Rogers"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
Robert Smithson"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
John F. Kennedy"All good art is an indiscretion."
Tennessee Williams"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."
Georges Braque"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
Henri Matisse"Through a painting we can see the whole world."
Hans Hofmann"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
Gertrude Stein"You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it."
Gustave Flaubert"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
Jean Arp"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Isaac Newton"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
Madonna Ciccone"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."
Lady Gaga"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"
M. C. Escher"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."
Lincoln Steffens"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."
J. Paul Getty"There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
Georges Braque"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."
Henri Matisse"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness."
Joan Miro"Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art."
Arsene Wenger"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Gauguin"One eye sees, the other feels."
Paul Klee"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
Andre Gide"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."
Marc Chagall"The history of art is the history of revivals."
Samuel Butler"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
Philip Guston"Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
Peter De Vries"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
Albert Einstein"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
Leo Tolstoy"You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision."
Ludovico Einaudi"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."
Aristotle"The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you."
Kehinde Wiley"Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books."
Jerry Saltz"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Paul Cezanne"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."
Charles Horton Cooley"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
Ansel Adams"Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story."
Diane Paulus"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
Philip Johnson"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
Cyril Connolly"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."
Marcel Duchamp"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
Pierre Bonnard"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."
Grandma Moses"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
Albert Einstein"In art the best is good enough."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Dale Carnegie"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
Anais Nin"Land really is the best art."
Andy Warhol"I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music."
Amandla Stenberg"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."
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