Thoughts About Art

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry.
-G.B. Shaw

Art is a form of catharsis
-Dorothy Parker

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
-Paul Guaguin

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have
one.
     --Stella Adler

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving
America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
     --Emma Albani

O, thou art fairer than the evening air.
-Christopher Marlowe

All art is a revolt against man's fate.
     --André Malraux

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp
of caprice and chance.
     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
     --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form
of truth.
     --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Art is a form of catharsis.
     --Dorothy Parker

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
     --Hilton Kramer

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of
his personality to the world he lives in.
     --Amy Lowell

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor
civilization is secure.
     --John Dewey

If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the
women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.
     --Mrs. Pablo Picasso

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
     --Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the
temporary and the lasting.
     --E. C. Stedman

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can
inspire.
     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery
and travail.
     --Theodore Dreiser

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the
artist does the better.
     --André Gide

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
     --Pablo Picasso

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious
truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but
never abandoned.
     --William Butler Yeats

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
     --Gilbert K. Chesterton

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the
artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
     --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own
loveliness.
     --George Jean Nathan

The course of Nature is the art of God.
     --Edward Young

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an
ill provider.
     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
     --Michelangelo

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
     --André Maurois

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the
barriers of nationality.
     --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no such thing as modern art. There is art--and there is
advertising.
     --Albert Sterner

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
     --Jawaharlal Nehru

Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and
not in its subject.
     --George Santayana

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
     --Thomas A. Edison

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the
shining elusive element which is life itself--life hurrying past us and
running away, too strong to
stop, too sweet to lose.
     --Willa Cather

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes
and ale?
-Unknown

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