Art Quotes

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

Nothing, Everything, Artist

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster

Artist, Realize, Complex

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Language, Painting

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

Painting, Half, Finished

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson

Themselves, Artists, Confined

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen

Done, Else, Worth

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen

Building, Becomes

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn

Time, Mind, Past

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Light, Movement

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Horror, Constraint

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Peter De Vries

Food, Museums, Par

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore

Work, Job, Speak

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Force, Explaining, Major

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key

Abstract, Horrifying, Becomes

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis

Fashion, Subject, Arbitrary

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges

Others, Process, Ability

You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Robert Rauschenberg

Material, Begin

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder

Good, Enough, Perfect

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe

Culture, Arts, Beliefs

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana

Peace, Long, Single

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman

Life, Beauty, Whatever

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de Vigny

Beauty, Except, Ideal

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Lives, Desire, Himself

I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana

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