Art Quotes - random
Al Gore: "I appreciate and respect her as an artist and as a person."
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.
A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
All loved Art in a seemly way
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
So living Nature, not dull Art,
Shall plan my ways and rule my heart.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
The great artist takes what he needs.
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.