[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —Al Capp More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. —Alfred North Whitehead More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let each man exercise the art he knows. —Aristophanes More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. —Barbra Streisand More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. —Ben Shahn More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. —Brenda Ueland 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
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
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
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
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
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
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