Art Quotes - Page 23

• Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Importance, Strongest

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• I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

  Henri Matisse

  Mind, Goldfish

  "Matisse". Book by Pierre Schneider, 1984.

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• For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

  William McElcheran

  Artist, Craftsman, Mystic

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• Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Everyday Things, Common, Attractive

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• Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

  Tom Ford

  Needs, Like You, Born

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• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Taste, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

  Jean Cocteau

  Speak, Plant, Horticulture

  Newsweek, May 16, 1955.

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Ugly Things

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• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• A Good artist has less time than ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Ideas, Artist, Inspirational Art

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• The highest art is artlessness.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Art Is, Highest

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• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Mean, Breaking Silence, Bread

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

  Ansel Adams

  Needs, Critics, Knows

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• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

  Theodor Adorno

  Inspirational, Life, Lying

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

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• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Book, Beer

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

  Philip James Bailey

  Nature, Men, Art Is

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.357

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• Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Reality, Unconscious, Humans

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• Drawing is the true test of art.

  Horace

  Drawing, Tests

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• Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

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• Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

  John Ciardi

  Girl, Sex, Ideas

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• A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Life, Rooms, Hung

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Business

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Block, Humorous

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