"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."
Art Quotes
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- 04 Dec
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- Quotes by John Updike
"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by George Eliot
"Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by George Eliot
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by John Ruskin
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by John Ruskin
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
- 04 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
- 03 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Laurence Sterne
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
- 03 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by James Joyce
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
- 03 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Francis Bacon
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
- 02 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
- 02 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."
- 02 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"All nature is but art unknown to thee."
- 02 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Alexander Pope
"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
- 02 Dec
- Art
- Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
- 15 Oct
- Art
- Quotes by John Locke
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
- 15 Oct
- Art
- Quotes by Plato
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
- 15 Oct
- Art
- Quotes by Leo Burnett