Art Quote by Franz Grillparzer

Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically,…

— Devendra Banhart

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action…

— Paul Valéry

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance…

— Fernando Pessoa

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have…

— William Faulkner

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the…

— Harold Rosenberg

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri