Quotes About Art

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.