Art Quotes

14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just… — Erykah Badu
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. — Erykah Badu
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and… — Walter Bagehot
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. — David Bailey
The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. — David Bailey
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art. — David Bailey
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph… — Ansel Adams
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the… — Ansel Adams
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac

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