| Author |
Quotes |
| Neal Cassady | Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. |
| Northrop Frye | Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. |
| Novalis | The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. |
| Oscar Levant | I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. |
| Oscar Levant | Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. |
| Oscar Wilde | All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. |
| Oscar Wilde | No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. |
| Pablo Picasso | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
| Pablo Picasso | Give me a museum and I'll fill it. |
| Pablo Picasso | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. |
| Pablo Picasso | My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. |
| Paul Cezanne | With an apple I will astonish Paris. |
| Paul Gauguin | Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
| Paul Gauguin | The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. |
| Paul Strand | The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. |
| Paul Valery | An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. |
| Percy Wynham Lewis | Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. |
| Professor Blackie | The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Pictures must not be too picturesque. |
| Richard Eyre | Balance is the enemy of art. |
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