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Art Quotes Page 2Page: 1 2 Art quotes are an important part of world history. It is also true that art is studied deeply around the world. Not only are there art galleries and museums but moreover there are a large number of institutions and foundations directly involved in the art industry. I found the art quotes by famous people in this collection to be consuming and interesting at the same time. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts, and inspires.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
A picture is a poem without words.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Every good painter paints what he is.
My painting does not come from the easel.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
By the work, one knows the workman.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I've never really had a hobby unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
All art is but imitation of nature.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
My favorite art quote is the one by Jonathan Swift. He said, “vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Page: 1 2 Home Inspirational-Motivational-Success-Quotes
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