14,373 Quotes About Art

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

जगाच्या बाजारात कलागुणांना विकून पैसे मिळत असेल तर कदाचित कुठेच नाही बसत मी ह्या जगात. पण फक्त जगण्यासाठी कलागुणांना विसरून वाट्याला आलेली फरफड कधीच मान्य नाही.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Art follows power. Just as soldiers hang medals from their uniforms, the rich hang paintings on their walls.

...it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.