Quotes about Art
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
by Albert Camus (Philosopher, French , born in 1913) keywords: art, dies, freedom, imposes, itself, lives, only, others, restraints , without The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photographer, French , born in 1908) keywords: act, box, brief, camera, creative, enough, fleeting, instant, just, lasts, level, lightning, little, long, moment, prey, trap , your When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
by Paul Cezanne (Artist, French , born in 1839) keywords: art, clashes, flower, god, judge, made, next, object, painting, put, take , tree Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Writer, English , born in 1874) keywords: art, beautiful, consists, every, frame, limitation, most, part , picture Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Writer, English , born in 1874) keywords: altogether, bed, ceiling, colored, draw, enough, experience, had, long, lying, only, pencil, perfect, supreme , would Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
by John Ciardi (Dramatist, English , born in 1916) keywords: art, better, girls, happens, idea, looking, modern, painters, persuade, stop , themselves Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
by Jean Cocteau (Director, French , born in 1889) keywords: always, art, beautiful, become, fashion, frequently, hand, more, other, produces, things, time, ugly , which The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
by Cyril Connolly (Journalist, English , born in 1903) keywords: above, artist, dark, day, falls, flow, following, heard, hole, laughing, may, moment, near, parties, picnic, river, sometimes, surface, through, underground , which
