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Quotes about Art


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.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Drawing is the true test of art.

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.

Mrs. Anna Jameson

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Jonson

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parent twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil never whoops, as he of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Susanne K. Langer

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Francis Vincent “Frank” Zappa, Jr.

Art is long, life is short. —Ars longa, vita brevis

Francis Vincent “Frank” Zappa, Hippocrates

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

Paul Klee

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Susanne Langer

Art is the objectification of feeling and the subjectification of nature.

Suzanne Langer

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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

George Luks

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.

Marshall McLuhan

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Walter Pater

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Pablo Picasso

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

François Auguste René Rodin

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

Sir Walter Scott

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience — the union of life and peace.

George Santayana

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

Daisetz Teitaro 'D.T.' Suzuki

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

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