Art Quote by Paul Mellon

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

— Andre Gide

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and…

— Remy de Gourmont

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

— James Anthony Froude

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

— Rebecca Horn

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

— Honore de Balzac

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

— John Burroughs

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

— Henry James

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist…

— William Carlos Williams