3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
3 December 2020 Thomas Guthrie As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
3 December 2020 Edvard Munch For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
3 December 2020 William Blake The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
3 December 2020 David Ogilvy I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn’t any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
3 December 2020 Carl Rogers The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
3 December 2020 Isaac Bashevis Singer Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard You can’t but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it’s a narrative art form.
3 December 2020 Paul Strand The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
3 December 2020 Salvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of ‘disinterest’ strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
3 December 2020 George Santayana The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
