Quotes about Art, page 10

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own...

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about art

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Quote by William Faulkner about art

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Quote by William Faulkner about art

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Quote by Walt Disney about art

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Quote by Walt Whitman about art

The course of Nature is the art of God.

Quote by Edward Young about art

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about art

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Quote by Frida Kahlo about art

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Quote by Jean Iris Murdoch about art

The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about art

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Quote by Edgar Degas about art

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Quote by Edgar Degas about art

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Quote by Margaret Fuller about art

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Quote by Frank Wedekind about art

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Quote by Franz Liszt about art

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Quote by Joseph Conrad about art

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about art

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Quote by Madonna about art

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Quote by Claude Debussy about art