ART QUOTES V

quotations about art

Art quote

If you are not passionate in life, you can't be passionate in art.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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Like most art students, I expect I'll find that there is no demand for what I've learned so I'll teach other students so that one day they can teach as well.

GUY BELLAMY

The Secret Lemonade Drinker

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Never judge a work of art by its defects.

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

attributed, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern

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We are all artists. We just have to believe it.

WILL GOMPERTZ

Think Like an Artist: and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life


Art is a language that doesn't need to be translated.

AHMAD HARIRI

"How art is helping Syrian refugees keep their culture alive", The Guardian, March 2, 2016


Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

attributed, Languages of Art

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Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

C. S. LEWIS

On Stories and Other Essays in Literature

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If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you.... It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it.

MAXWELL ANDERSON

attributed, Words of Wisdom

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Nature is a haunted house -- but Art -- a House that tries to be haunted.

EMILY DICKINSON

letter to T. W. Higginson, 1876

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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

interview, Paper Magazine, September 17, 2014

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The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michelangelo is not conceivable.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE

On Beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh

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There are many brave artists who dare to reveal what's most precious to them. Who dare to step into the world without protective layer. Open. Vulnerable. Exposed.

ESTHER DE CHARON DE SAINT GERMAIN

"Why Art Is Important for Highly Sensitive Persons", Huffington Post, March 15, 2016


All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

ROMAN PAYNE

Rooftop Soliloquy

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Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

JEAN M. AUEL

The Mammoth Hunters

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Realism and art cannot live together.

JENNETTE LEE

The Ibsen Secret

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Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

DAN SIMMONS

The Fall of Hyperion

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We live in a world full of urgent problems: climate change, terrorism and poverty, to name but three. We won't resolve them with brawn; they are obstacles we can only overcome by using our brains--when we are thinking like artists and not behaving like animals.

WILL GOMPERTZ

Think Like an Artist: and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life


Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.

PAT B. ALLEN

Art Is a Spiritual Path

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

JAMES BALDWIN

Esquire, April 1960

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