Art Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney Download Open image “If only art were as rare as good taste.” — Natalie Clifford Barney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Good taste Ifs Taste
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art. — Gene Black Copy Share Image
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image