Art Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“I can’t criticize what I don’t understand. If you want to call this art, you’ve got the benefit of all my doubts.”
– Charles Rosin

“The veracity of ‘art for art’s sake’ is more accurately expressed as ‘art for our sake.”
– Che Baraka

“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
– Chinua Achebe

“Art is not an object, but a ‘feeling’ that has no recognisable form. Paintings, sculpture, music and dance are objects left behind after the artist has tried to give this ‘feeling’ structure.”
– Christopher John Hollins

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
– Christopher Morley

“If I didn’t think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn’t go on doing it.”
– Claes Oldenburg

“Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.”
– Damien Hirst

“Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.”
– Daniel Bell

“Art is not ‘about.’ Art is.”
– Darby Bannard

“Art is a pigment of your imagination.”
– Darcy Gerdes

“Art has always been the raft onto ‘which we climb to save our sanity.”
– Dorothea Tanning

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
– Eckhart Tolle

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas

“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
– Edith Wharton

“Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness – the work.”
– Eduardo Chillida

“Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.”
– Egon Friedell

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Art is an epiphany in a coffee cup.”
– Elizabeth Murray

“The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.”
– Elliot W. Eisner

“Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn’t always look the same…”
– Emily Carr

“Art without heart is craft.”
– Eric Gibbons

“Art is a question! If you look at it and you can answer all the questions, it is just a picture.”
– Ethan Marom

“I’m painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I’m trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”
– Euan Uglow

“Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. ”
– Eugene Delacroix

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
– Federico Fellini

“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.”
– Francisco Goya

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“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 is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we’ve all had.”
– Gary Holland

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