Art Quote by John Ashbery

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to…

— Victor Cousin

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

— Gunter Brus

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives…

— Victor Cousin

If you look at creation the way it is, it is explosively beautiful.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image…

— Abraham Kuyper

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and…

— Aldous Huxley