Quotes About Art

The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

We occasionally see something on the stage that reminds us a little of Shakespear. [Oct. 16, 1814, The Champion ]

The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order

Ideally, a fine painting, like a house, is neither a speculation nor an investment; it is a purchase. Its value consists solely of the pleasure and utility it provides now and in the future. The dividend the painting provides is of the non-financial variety. How

All gardening is landscape painting.

with hand-painted flowers.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Fancy as many Rules as you will of modeling the moral Behaviour of Man, they all do nothing, because they leave Nature still alive, and therefore can only help a Man to a feigned, hypocritical Art of concealing his own inward Evil, and seeming to be not under its Power.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

Take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours.

The old man opened the door with all the ease of the Venus de Milo cracking a safe.

Creating art allows us to beat the odds and find immortality, without having to do the whole Doctor Faustus thing. Though Brian Wilson and Mike Love no longer collaborate and Carl and Dennis Wilson are gone, they are all still together on the radio late at night, where they join voices and are young and golden and beautiful forever.

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

Art is wood that has fewer branches than science but its roots are deeper than in science.

Artwork can be consumed for ages. The people and the state can be proud of it. That is why it is incorrect to stimulate something that has no real value.

As in zoology, monsters exist in art. It is the pervert of the formation of words, lines, colors, and sounds.

By means of art, man values the value of his worldview and the event. With it, the man moves to the ground and phosphoresces at the darkness of reality, illuminating his dark path with its splendor, like a magical dark-eyed eye, so it moves between the stars and so lives.

Taming the matter is the basic thing for creating visual art.

The art deprived of closeness to the world is, in fact, pure, flat, unmanageable, decorative. Totally extraneous because she herself destroyed outer. Empty and indifferent, deprived of destiny, it solves only technical issues.