| Author |
Quotes |
| Henri Matisse | Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. |
| Henri Matisse | You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. |
| Henri Matisse | Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. |
| Henri Matisse | Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. |
| Henri Matisse | I have been no more than a medium, as it were. |
| Henry Mille | The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. |
| Henry Mitchell | The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart. |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. |
| Hugh Casson | Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. |
| Igor Stravinsky | I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967. |
| Italo Calvino | A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. |
| Jacob Getlar Smith | The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization. |
| Jacques Barzun | Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. |
| James Bailey | Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. |
| Jean Arp | Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. |
| Jean Cocteau | Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. |
| Jean Dubuffet | Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. |
| John Drummond | The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. |
| John LeCarre | Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. |
| John Updike | The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. |
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