Art Quotes

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler

My inspiration is ART. . . Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality.http://www.dansinspiration.com/index.php

Daniel Robert Lynch

A work of art makes a great impression on us only when it gives us something which, even with all the efforts of our intellect, we cannot understand completely.

Leo Tolstoy

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it

Victor Hugo

Un croquis vaut mieux qu???un long discours.Fr., A sketch is better than a long speech.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Theodor Adorno

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

Tot a?a cum galbenul este intotdeauna asociat cu lumina, se poate spune ?i c? albastrul aduce cu el ?i un principiu al întunericului. Aceast? culoare are un efect special ?i aproape indescriptibil asupra ochiului. Pe scara culorilor este una puternic?, îns? de partea negativ?, ?i la maximum de puritate este, cum s-ar zice, o nega?ie stimulatoare. Aspectul s?u este deci un fel de contradic?ie între excita?ie ?i calm.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul

Mahatma Gandhi

The creation and sale of most art today is pure prostitution.

Leo Tolstoy

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Northrop Frye

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Alan Rickman

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

G. K. Chesterton

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

Jerry Saltz

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

Morihei Ueshiba

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

George Bernard Shaw

All art is immoral.

Oscar Wilde