Art Quotes - Page 18

• It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ends, Nature Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.94

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• 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, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Believe, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Nov 27, 2011

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Maturity, Perfect, Doe

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• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  Edvard Munch

  Reading, Men, Knitting

  "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud) by Edvard Munch, 1889.

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• If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Spring, Reality, Littles

  "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin". "Direct Art Magazine", Vol. 13, p. 87, Fall-Winter 2006.

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• Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Beautiful, Kings

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Passion, Joy, Looks

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• The temple of art is built in words.

  J. G. Holland

  Temples, Art Is, Built

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Block, Ignorance, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Work, Writing

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 5 Apr. 1776)

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• I think about my work every minute of the day.

  Jeff Koons

  Thinking, Architecture, Minutes

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  Coco Chanel

  Time, Business, Creativity

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• When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Book, Kids

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• Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

  Eugene J. Martin

  Tree, Mind, Fruit

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• Art is a personal act of courage.

  Seth Godin

  Acts Of Courage, Art Is

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.77, Penguin

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• The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Design, Execution, Spirit

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• The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

  Oscar Wilde

  Perfect, Use, Morality

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) preface

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• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Moving, Light, Ships

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• It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

  Gerhard Richter

  Witty, Talking, Interesting

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• In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

  Colin MacInnes

  England, Pops, Fine

  1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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• Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Children, Sculpture, Poetry And Music

  James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”

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• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Personality, Painting

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• The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Vigor

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