Art Quotes: Inspiring Thoughts and Creative Musings (Page 2)

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"

"Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

John Grierson, Director

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them"

Elliott Erwitt, Photographer

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty"

Alfred de Vigny, Poet

"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"There is no art without Eros"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Art is the proper task of life"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Personality is everything in art and poetry"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"In art the best is good enough"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"All art is but imitation of nature"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Originality is the art of concealing your source"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose"

Willa Cather, Author

"Art lies by its own artifice"

Ovid, Poet

"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Rules and models destroy genius and art"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

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