Art
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have o
- Adler, Stella
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leav
- Albani, Emma
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nat
- Beecher, Harriet Ward
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
- Blake, William
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin
- Da Vinci, Leonardo
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
- Ellis, Havelock
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- Faulkner, William
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti
- Fielding, Henry
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.
- Forster, E.M.
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Frost, Robert
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
- Gauguin, Paul
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Gide, Andre
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
- Gracian, Baltasar
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Guaguin, Paul
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational
- Herman, George
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
- Nehru, Jawaharial
But that's what being an artist <i>is</i>
- New Yorker
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
- Picasso, Pablo
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Reid, Kate
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
- Ruskin, John
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
- Schiller, Johann Von
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Simonides
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- Tolstoy, Leo
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
- Unknown
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
- Unknown
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
- Welles, Orson
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Wharton, Edith
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Wilde, Oscar
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
- Wilde, Oscar
