Quotes about Art

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.