Art Quote by Eugene Delacroix

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

— Eugene Delacroix

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

— Robert Townsend

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Rollo May

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head as a…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work…

— Anonymous

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an…

— Titian

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

— Chuck Close

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace…

— Titian

“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy.…

— Iris Murdoch

Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

— Alexander McCall Smith