Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

Gian Carlo Menotti

Related Quotes:

" Wherever art appears, life disappears. "

Robert Motherwell

" All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "

" The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" If it's good art, it's good. "

Kenneth Branagh

" It's clever, but is it Art? "

Rudyard Kipling

" I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art. "

" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. "

Philip James Bailey

" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. "

" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. "

" When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. "

Robert Mapplethorpe

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

Winston Churchill

" Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. "

" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

" What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. "

" Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. "

" Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. "

" Painting is by nature a luminous language. "

Robert Delaunay

" Rules and models destroy genius and art. "

William Hazlitt

" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

Langston Hughes

" The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. "

" Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. "

" Recycling old buildings to show art is very important. "

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana