Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by, which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy"

Anais Nin, Author

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"History develops, art stands still"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means"

Susan Sontag, Author

"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty"

Jerry Hall, Model

"I've always gotten along best with artists"

Jerry Hall, Model

"I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance"

Jerry Hall, Model

"In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation"

Susan Sontag, Author

""Camp" is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated"

Susan Sontag, Author

"I have done a lot of theater"

Jerry Hall, Model

"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own"

Susan Sontag, Author

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones"

Susan Sontag, Author

"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it"

Susan Sontag, Author

"My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem"

Jerry Hall, Model

"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

"More than in any other performing arts, the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"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, Poet

"An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted, the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"A picture must possess a real power to generate light, and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light, or rather in light"

Henri Matisse, Artist

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