Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: inspiration freedom accomplishment art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. —Eugene Delacroix More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: maturity art novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. —Duke Ellington More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. —Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. —David Cronenberg More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests. —David Cronenberg More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. —Charles Rosin More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned. —Brooke McEldowney More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email