Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

— Igor Stravinsky

Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new…

— Willa Cather

“If we are as free as we like to believe, then it makes sense that we are free to choose who we want to…

— Cristian Mihai

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

— Robert Burns

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.

— John F. Kennedy

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced.…

— Maurice Denis

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

— Henri Matisse

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

— Rithy Panh