Art Quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

Sunshine, Light, Expression

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams

Everybody, Paintings, Trusts

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

Soul, Artist, Adventure

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

Nothing, Worse, Image

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Congress, Market, Happening

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

Joy, Expression, Labor

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

Fashion, Living, Social

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

Time, Great, Before

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert

Everything, Cannot, Perfection

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Picture, Painting

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp

Abstract, Product, Utterly

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

Work, Nothing, Artist

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne

God, Judge, Made

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Speak, Treat

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, Fear, Making

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

Time, Beautiful, Fashion

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali

Beauty, Terrifying, Edible

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Philosophy, Sake

Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Good, Painter, Paints

The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler

History, Revivals

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence

Business, Between, Relation

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope

Human, Wit, Narrow

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster

Men, Small, Wrong

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Between, Vision, Expression

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

Perfection, Trifles, Trifle

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