Art Quotes And Sayings

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“An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all… feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.”
– Paul Cezanne

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
– Paul Gauguin

“Art is who we are. It facilitates self-realization in everyone.”
– Philippe Benichou

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.”
– Randall Jarrell

“In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.”
– Raymond Chandler

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
– Rene Magritte

“A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.”
– Robert Henri

“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”
– Robert Henri

“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
– Robert Henri

“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.”
– Roy Adzak

“Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.”
– Russell L. Ackoff

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
– Scott Adams

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
– Susan Sontag

“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.”
– Suzanne Langer

“Art is music made visible as music is art made audible.”
– Ted Hesketh

“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
– Theodor W. Adorno

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
– Theodore Dreiser

“Nature is God‘s. Art is man’s instrument.”
– Thomas Overbury

“Art condenses the experience we all have as human beings, and, by forming it, makes it significant. We all have an in-built need for harmony and the structures that create harmony. Basically, art is an affirmation of life.”
– Trevor Bell

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
– Walt Whitman

“True art floats above us somewhere in the heavens, invisible, indefinable and unattainable. ”
– Warren Criswell

“Never judge a work of art by its defects.”
– Washington Allston

“What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.”
– Willa Cather

“A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
– William Dobell

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