Art Quote by Arthur Wesley Dow

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

— Zane Grey

“All matter, including you and I, has rhythmic movement within it and our quest should be to create a proper rhythmic harmony within ourselves…you…

— Ed Viswanathan

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the…

— Igor Babailov

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense…

— Wendy Beckett

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most…

— James Boswell

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just…

— Michael Jackson

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard…

— Jean Pigozzi

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality…

— John Edgar Wideman

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones