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Meaningful Quotes about Art
Artists
The perfection of art is to conceal
art.—Quintilian.
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of
folly.—Hazlitt.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of
art.
Philip James Bailey
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of
art.—Goethe.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the
word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art does not imitate, but interpret.—Mazzini.
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions
of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means
paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch
color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of
personal expression.
Henri Matisse
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to
the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to
have.
Andy Warhol
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both
unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat
something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values
are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to
give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't
believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto his glory.—Longfellow.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one
achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense
of things.
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