| Author |
Quotes |
| Edward Gordon Craig | That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. |
| Edward Steichen | Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. |
| Edward Steichen | Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. |
| Elbert Hubbard | The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. |
| Eliza Farnham | Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. |
| Ellen Key | The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. |
| Erica Jong | Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. |
| Ernst Fischer | In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. |
| Eugene Delacroix | The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. |
| Francois Cavanna | Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. |
| G K Chesterton | When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. |
| George Moore | A great artist is always before his time or behind it. |
| Georges Rouault | For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
| Gore Vidal | For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages? |
| Grace Glueck | The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product. |
| Gustave Flaubert | Of all lies, art is the least untrue. |
| Guy Debord | Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. |
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