Famous Quotations About Artists and Art

Here are some famous quotations about art and artists. We have quotes made by Andy Warhol, George Bernard Shaw, Johann W. von Goethe, John F. Kennedy, Oscar Wilde plus others.

An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilizaation.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

If you want to know everything about me, just look at the surface of my paintings, it's all there, there's nothing more.

It does not matter how badly you, paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Most of those who call themselves artists are in reality picture dealers, only they make the pictures themselves.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Respectability is in itself no bar to the production of works of art.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament.

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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