Top 100 Quotes About In Art
#1. Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths - as many paths as there are artists.
Rufino Tamayo
#2. The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Edward Hopper
#3. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
Amit Chaudhuri
#4. Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.
Benjamin Wood
#5. The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.
Jeff Wall
#6. To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.
D.A. Wallach
#7. When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
Michael Ironside
#8. In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
Eric Kandel
#9. At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
#10. What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
Henri Matisse
#11. What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
#12. The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
Willa Cather
#13. There is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for.
L.M. Montgomery
#14. Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
Robert Schumann
#15. The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
Christopher Wood
#16. He cared little for painting. In fact, he hadn't stood before an easel since school days. But if pretending to be interested in art kept a genuine smile on Amelia Barrett's face, he would learn to like it.
Sarah E. Ladd
#18. Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
John Ruskin
#19. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
Raf Simons
#20. To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or do, is propaganda.
David DuChemin
#22. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
Harold Bloom
#23. Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
Salman Rushdie
#24. The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
Rebecca West
#25. I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I put a skylight in. In my house, I turned the garage into an art studio. So I'm awash in art studios.
Peter Falk
#26. There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke Ellington
#27. The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm
#28. In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.
Vincent Price
#29. In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Walter Darby Bannard
#30. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#32. I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.
Amy Brenneman
#33. A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
William Butler Yeats
#34. In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
Edward Abbey
#35. It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
Iris Murdoch
#37. The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#38. In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Willem De Kooning
#39. Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.
Sarah Vowell
#40. Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
Georges Braque
#41. In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.
John Updike
#42. In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that cannot be explained.
Georges Braque
#43. In psychoanalysis, you try to retain a discovery; in art, once the thing is made, you let it go.
Steve Martin
#44. In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#45. Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
Edmond De Goncourt
#46. I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
#47. I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.
Jonathan LaPaglia
#48. In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.
Stanley Kubrick
#49. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce
#50. The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#51. If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.
Robert Barry
#52. My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.
Bran Ferren
#53. The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Franco Moschino
#54. Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences ... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
Bob Beamon
#55. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
Maya Lin
#56. I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.
Charles Saatchi
#57. As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
Gavin Bryars
#58. What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes
#59. To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Anthony Burgess
#60. I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
Erin McKeown
#61. He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.
Anna Jarzab
#62. All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.
Matsuo Basho
#63. In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
George Orwell
#64. When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
Laurie Simmons
#66. Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
Jude Deveraux
#68. I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
Patti Smith
#69. It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in ... art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.
Ursula Goodenough
#70. I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.
Jeffrey Lewis
#71. An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
D. J. Enright
#72. Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.
Jincy Willett
#73. In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.
Josephine Baker
#75. We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
Doug Aitken
#76. I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
Robert Rodriguez
#77. I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
John Hench
#78. A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
Lucian Freud
#79. The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Christian Morgenstern
#81. I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.
Nick Kroll
#82. I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image.
Roz Chast
#83. In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.
Joshua Bell
#84. In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.
Henry Miller
#85. There's a purpose to knowledge ... salvation. What good are my visions or your visions, beautifully and laboriously worked out in art, if the purpose of it is not to save something in our souls and make it all beautiful.
Jack Kerouac
#86. Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.
Stephen Vizinczey
#87. What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head ... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.
Nicholas Von Hoffman
#89. The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave Flaubert
#90. To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career.
Orhan Pamuk
#91. A creative period in art is
determined by the order of a particular style applied to the disorder of a particular time. It gives form and
formulas to contemporary passions.
Albert Camus
#92. It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
Virginia Woolf
#93. I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
Pablo Picasso
#94. I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art ... It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.
Maurizio Cattelan
#95. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
#96. Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.
Martin Ritt
#97. In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
Bruce Nauman
#98. PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
Ambrose Bierce
#99. There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Auguste Rodin
#100. What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
Corin Nemec
