Quotes About Art

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That's all I've ever used in my paintings.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.