 Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Author: Albert Camus |
| Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Author: Ansel Adams |
| A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Author: Charles Baudelaire |
| We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Author: Clive Bell |
| Great art picks up where nature ends. Author: Marc Chagall |
| It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Author: Charles Baudelaire |
| What is art? Nature concentrated. Author: Honore de Balzac |
| Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. Author: Jacques Barzun |
| Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. Author: Josef Albers |
| Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Author: Ambrose Bierce |
| Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Author: Jean Arp |
| Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Author: Edmund Burke |
| The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. Author: Lester Bangs |
| No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. Author: Theodore Bikel |
| The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Author: Theodor Adorno |
| In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Author: Josef Albers |
| All art is exploitation. Author: Sherman Alexie |
| Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. Author: Beck |
| Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Author: Alvar Aalto |
| Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. Author: Constantin Brancusi |
