Quotes About Arts II

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~Pablo Picasso


Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951


Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917



All art requires courage. ~Anne Tucker



Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ~Wynetka Ann Reynolds



Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ~Fran Lebowitz


Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall


When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto


Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ~G.K. Chesterton


What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike


Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ~Aaron Howard


Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. ~Ernst Levy


Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ~John Anthony Ciardi



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



Art is the triumph over chaos. ~John Cheever


All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close


Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter



Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ~Ben Jonson



What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens


Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier


Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque