Art Quotes

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Life too near paralyses art.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

We live ruins amid ruins.

Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

The eye is the best of artists.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

New arts destroy the old.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

A good piece of art raises questions.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.