Best Art Is Quotations
1853 Art Is quotes by 1072 unique authors
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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
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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
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Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than…
— Eric Hoffer
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
— Stanley Kubrick
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things,…
— Franz Marc
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Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we…
— Shirley MacLaine
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Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
— John Bunyan
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Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it…
— Morris Kline
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with…
— Paul Cezanne
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All art is an imitation of nature.
— Seneca the Elder
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
— Fran Drescher
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
— Simone Weil
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
— Chuck Jones
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
— John Ruskin
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
— Freya Stark
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A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
— Hans Hofmann
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Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
— Hans Hofmann
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
— Auguste Rodin
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