Quotes About Accidental Art

#1. I don't want to be here when my latest work of accidental art is discovered.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#2. A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Francis Bacon

#4. Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Anton Ehrenzweig

#5. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Marcus Aurelius

#6. The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art. The personality of the artist is not a thing the public should know about. It is too accidental.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

Edgar Degas

#8. One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.

Ralph Steadman