Architecture Quote by Joseph Addison

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have…

— Anonymous

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

— Edgar Degas

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable…

— Lucian Freud

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism…

— Fernando Botero

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

To a man who loves music. A man who loves art. Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart.

— India Arie

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities,…

— Jacques Barzun

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

— Edward Abbey

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky