Art Quote by Paul Gauguin

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and…

— Max Horkheimer

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that…

— Rainer J. Hanshe

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

— Ayi Kwei Armah

A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the…

— Herbert Marcuse

The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not…

— Willa Cather

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong…

— Alfred Sisley

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human…

— Eric Hoffer

“To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does…

— John Ruskin

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have…

— Robert Brustein

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong…

— Igor Babailov