Art Quotes - Page 19

• Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

  Aaron Hill

  Looks, Deceiving, Innocent

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.64

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Profound, Sentiments

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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• Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

  Victor Cousin

  Struggle, Giving, True Beauty

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• I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow.

  Ken Done

  Thinking, People, Roles

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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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• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Personality, Painting

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• As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that covers a lot of other things as well. I think there's an Informel element in Beuys, as well; but it all began with Duchamp and chance, or with Mondrian, or with the Impressionists. The Informel is the opposite of the constructional quality of classicism - the age of kings, or clearly formed hierarchies.

  Gerhard Richter

  Kings, Thinking, Opposites

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• 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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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, True Friend

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

  Fernand Leger

  Understanding, Matter

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• One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.

  George Mason

  Principles, Ornaments, Firsts

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• The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

  Banksy

  People, Holy Grail, Looks

  "Something to Spray". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2003.

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• The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Utterance, Speech, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Reading Poetry, Immature

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows.

  Aristophanes

  Strength, Life Changing, Exercise

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes”

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• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Nature, Theory, Painter

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• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

  Robert Schumann

  Inspiring, Men, Light

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• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  War, People, Needs

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

  Samuel Butler

  Architecture, Revival, Art Is

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Philosophy, Sake, Feds

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