Quotes About Art

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

The song of the brush.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

Art is man's nature nature is God's art.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Art upsets science reassures.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.