| Author |
Quotes |
| Al Capp | A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. |
| Anonymous | Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. |
| Ben Jonson | Art hath an enemy called ignorance. |
| Anonymous | Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. |
| Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. |
| Dante Alighieri | Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. |
| Dante Alighieri | Art for art's sake. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Art is the proper task of life. |
| George Luks | Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard! |
| George Santayana | Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace. |
| Henry Austin Dobson | All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. |
| Hippocrates | Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis |
| Homer | It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Drawing is the true test of art. |
| Isaac D Israeli | There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness. |
| John Mason Good | The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result. |
| Marshall McLuhan | Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. |
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