Art Quotes

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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything… — Pablo Picasso
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never… — Oscar Wilde
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. — Walter Pater
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with… — Aristotle
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly". — Vincent Van Gogh
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen. — Ralph Richardson
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental. — George Santayana
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
Creativity is discontent translated into arts. — Eric Hoffer
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to… — Martin Luther
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously. — Elbert Hubbard
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson

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