Quotes About Art

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

Mai looked around, marveling at the nearly finished paintings on the stairwell's walls.....Mai wished that she could create something as beautiful. She was certain that to create such beauty, the painter must have laughed many times.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

Music is the music of all music, and I am jealous.

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michelangelo is not conceivable.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result.

The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the consideration of Rhetoric, in the large sense in which that art was conceived by the ancients; or of the still more extensive art of Education.

to secure as much of the advantages of centralised power and intelligence, as can be had without turning into governmental channels too great a proportion of the general activity, is one of the most difficult and complicated questions in the art of government.

All praise of Civilization, or Art, or Contrivance, is so much dispraise of Nature ; an admission of imperfection, which it is man's business, and merit, to be always endeavouring to correct or mitigate.

A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties—finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it; in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind past and present, and their prospects in the future.

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album sleeve, black, with a black triangle, from which flowed a narrow rainbow of light. Zeke

Speaking of photography Baudelaire said: "This industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy." And in his own terms of reference Baudelaire was half right; certainly the new medium could not satisfy old standards. The photographer must find new ways to make his meaning clear.

Having no beginning and no end, circles represent the infinite, ergo the divine. Giotto and the pope knew such things by heart.

Evidently, Michelangelo was intrigued to contemplate the aftermath of his own experience of eliciting beauty from abstract rock.

If Brunelleschie provided the intellect for the creation of Renaissance sculpture, Donatello supplied the heart.