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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Male writers get asked what they think, women what they feel. —Eleanor Catton More about this quote Tags: emotions writing art gender sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing new in art except talent. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Tags: talent art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History develops, art stands still. —E. M. Forster More about this quote Tags: history art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art? —Robert Musil More about this quote Tags: life perfection art struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. —Jackson Pollock More about this quote Tags: art tools painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. —Norman McLaren More about this quote Tags: art movement drawing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email