 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Author: Daniel Barenboim |
| Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. Author: Martin Amis |
| Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. Author: Jose Bergamin |
| Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. Author: Theodor Adorno |
| Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Author: Chinua Achebe |
| My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. Author: Carl Andre |
| The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Author: Paul Cezanne |
| Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. Author: Rudolf Arnheim |
| People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. Author: Walter Annenberg |
| Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. Author: Stella Adler |
| It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. Author: Clive Bell |
| My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. Author: Carl Andre |
| True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed. Author: Jose Bergamin |
| Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. Author: Jorge Luis Borges |
| Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. Author: Margaret Atwood |
| A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Author: Paul Cezanne |
| The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. Author: John Desmond Bernal |
| Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Author: Giorgio de Chirico |
| In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. Author: Henri Bergson |
