Art Quote by Eugene Delacroix

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

— Barbra Streisand

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

— Robert Townsend

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

— Rollo May

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

— Charles Negre

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false…

— Edgar Degas

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

— Mike Curran

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

— William Blake

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

— John Banville