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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to
the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing
them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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 (1874 - 1925)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist
does the better.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most
would choose none.
Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling,
dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe
to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art
matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of
immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if
you do.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in
anything.
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions
as there are human beings.
George Tooker
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his
pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give
me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of
truth.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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