Quotes About Art

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

The art of getting riches consists very much in thrift. All men are not equally qualified for getting money, but it is in the power of every one alike to practice this virtue.

Art is man determined to die sane.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?