His Art Quotes

94 quotes by 86 authors

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to… — Alfred Adler
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is… — Thomas Aquinas
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who… — Tertullian
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters… — Piet Mondrian
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of… — John Gorrie
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art — Lee Simonson
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact,… — James Dean
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want… — Langston Hughes
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything… — George Bernard Shaw
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or… — Stendhal
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in… — Pierre Bonnard
There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. — Clement Greenberg
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved… — Connie Willis
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth… — D. H. Lawrence
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art. — Rembrandt
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility… — Gabor Szabo
An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art. — Robert Pinsky

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