Art Quotes

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide

Great, Human, Point

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Second, Event, Fraction

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman

Life, Criticism, Parasitic

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller

Mind, Arts, Waking

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan

Greatest, Century

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann

Happiness, Living, Picture

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

Why, Opinion, Universe

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Spirit, Space, Room

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann

Men, Light, Darkness

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth

Often, Pictures, Walls

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand

Good, Difficult, Artist

Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner

Science, Made, Clear

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

Genius, Rules, Destroy

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature, Artists, Mature

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger

Time, Strange, Light

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno

Truth, Lie, Magic

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno

Today, Order, Chaos

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh

Beauty, Love, Beautiful

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse

Between, Difference, Paint

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

Beauty, Moment, Cheat

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller

Nature, Men, Made

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

Revolution, Either, Plagiarism

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

Great, Artists, Steal

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