Art Quotes - random
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
Art enriches itself by eliminating artificial barriers between people such as borders between countries.
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.
But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
In the vaunted works of Art
The master stroke is Nature's part.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.