Quotes about Art
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
- John Lennon
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
- Albert Camus
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
- Pablo Picasso
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
- Pablo Picasso
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
- Albert Camus
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
- Ayn Rand
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- Oscar Wilde
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
- CS Lewis