883 private quotes tagged art

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.” — David Hockney

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“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.” — Paul Cezanne

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“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” — Henry Moore

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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange

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“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” — Robert Rauschenberg

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“You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.” — Steve Martin

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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” — Hippocrates

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“What is art? Prostitution.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas

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“Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.” — Steve Martin

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“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” — Paul Cezanne

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“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.” — Theodor Adorno

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“I'm not interested in pop art.” — Billy Corgan

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“I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“Patience is the art of hoping.” — Luc de Clapiers

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“Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.” — Helen Rowland

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“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.” — Simone Weil

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“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” — Lin Yutang

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“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.” — Edward Hopper

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“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.” — Robert Indiana

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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” — John Ruskin

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“Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.” — George Jean Nathan

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