Quotes About Art

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little.