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Art QuotesPage: 1 Art quotes are so much a part of man and woman’s existence. So too is it true that art quotes have and continue to hold a special place in our history. The ability of the artist to perform at such high levels are simply amazing. Their moxie, their get-up-and-go personalities continue to amaze. So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Art is a revolt against fate.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
On page two you will find some crackerjack art quotes in this treasure trove. These are truly some of the best art quotes available. Page: 1 Home Inspirational-Motivational-Success-Quotes
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