Top 31 Art Beholder Quotes
#1. Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.
Kathy Lette
#2. What we need to learn to do is to look at thought, rather than from thought.
Steven C. Hayes
#4. All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
Dorothy Thompson
#5. Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#6. Anger has two benefits: it provides a warning and the necessary energy for change.
David W. Earle
#7. All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
Henri Matisse
#8. It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art ... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.
Clement Greenberg
#9. When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.
Margaret Mahy
#10. No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Egon Schiele
#11. Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Len Wein
#12. The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.
Keith Haring
#13. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.
Gerard De Marigny
#14. If only she had brought her novel down with her.
Anthony Doerr
#15. By the time she a year old Mae Mobley following me around everwhere I go ... .Miss Leefolt, she'd narrow up her eyes at me like I done something wrong, unhitch that crying baby off my foot. I reckon that's the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns
Kathryn Stockett
#16. The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
#17. It has been said that art is a tryst; for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomita
#18. The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.
Peter Schjeldahl
#19. Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books.
Scott Sigler
#21. A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
Richard Branson
#23. All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.
Maren Elwood
#24. Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ...
Henri Matisse
#26. Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#27. Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
William Shakespeare
#28. Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.
April Winchell
#29. Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?
Don DeLillo
#30. The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.
Jim Grimsley
#31. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
