Art Quotes - Page 23

• Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

  Andy Warhol

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Should Have, People

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• The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

  William Whewell

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.129

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• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  Charles Dickens

  Block, Food, Cutting

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

  Henri Matisse

  Landscape, Figures, Interest

  "Matisse on Art".

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Ugly Things

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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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• 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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• Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Time, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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