Quotes about Art, page 12

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about art

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about art

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about art

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Quote by Paul Cezanne about art

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Quote by Frank Norris about art

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about art

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about art

Sarcasm is the first of the virtues of art.

Quote by Horia Garbea about art

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Quote by Louise Bogan about art

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about art

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Quote by Jean Cocteau about art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about art

Life is the art of drawing without having an eraser.

Quote by John Gardner about art

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about art

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Quote by Sylvia Plath about art

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about art

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Quote by Johannes Brahms about art

Poetry is life before being art.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about art

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Quote by Michel Foucault about art

Art is a waking dream. Dreams are sleeping art.

Quote by Mark Amend about art