Art Quotes And Sayings

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“Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
– George J. Nathan

“Art influences everything.”
– Ginia A. Davis

“I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.”
– Giorgio Morandi

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
– Goethe

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.”
– Hans Jean Arp

“Art is the appearance of the idea.”
– Hegel-Schiller

“There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.”
– Henry Moore

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.”
– Ignace Paderewski

“Art is an international language, understood by all.”
– Igor Babailov

“Art is purposiveness without purpose.”
– Immanuel Kant

“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. ”
– Ingmar Bergman

“I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, ‘What is art?’ He answered, ‘Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.”
– James Dickey

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
– James Joyce

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”
– James McNeil Whistler

“Art results not when there is nothing that can be added, but when there is nothing that can be taken away.”
– James O. Collins

“Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. ”
– Jeet Aulakh

“There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When we separate music from life we get art.”
– John Cage

“An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn’t accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.”
– John Cassavetes

“Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it. ”
– John Chamberlain

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”
– John Cheever

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”
– John Lennon

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
– John W. Gardner

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
– Joseph Conrad

“Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail.”
– Julia Cameron

“Art is a profound intellectual stimulation.”
– K. A. Bressler

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