Art Quotes - Page 24

• My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

  Clara Schumann

  Imagination, Architecture, My Imagination

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• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  James Whistler

  Men, Long, Portraits

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• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  Walter Winchell

  Gossip, Way, Saying Nothing

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• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

  William Wordsworth

  Wall, Artist, Architecture

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• Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, House

  Christopher E. G. Benfey, Emily Dickinson (1986). “Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet”, George Braziller

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• What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivational, War, Creativity

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creative, Stealing, Copies

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• Bad artists always admire each others work.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Admiration, Admire

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.702, GENERAL PRESS

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  You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

  Salvador Dali

  Creativity, Confusion, Contradictory

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• Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Thee, Company

  "Don Quixote".

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• The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Way, Breakfast Of Champions, Bearable

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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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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• Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Feels, Persons

  George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.52

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• Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

  Taylor Swift

  Important, Albums, Labels

  "Taylor Swift takes a stand over Spotify music royalties" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Order, World

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• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

  Theodore Bikel

  Past, Heirlooms, Architecture

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Fall, Dark, Rivers

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• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Science, Tree

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, Men, Contempt

  "Notebook L". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Edmund Wilson, 1945.

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

  Jobs, Mistake, Writing

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

  Rene Magritte

  Paint

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• Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Perfection, Artist, Famous Artist

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• When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

  Agnes Martin

  Beauty, Eye, Thinking

  Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Tragedy, Ordinary

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