A
Month of Art Quotes
1
All art is quite useless. So is a
flower.
-Oscar Wilde
2
If you can kill a snake with it,
it ain't art.
-Orcenith Bonge
3
Originality is the art of
concealing your source.
-Franklin P. Jones
4
Bad artists always admire each
other's work.
-Oscar Wilde
5
Dead artists always bring out an
older, richer crowd.
-Elizabeth Shaw
6
Diplomacy is the art of letting
someone have your way.
-Daniele Vare
7
Many excellent cooks are spoiled
by going into the arts
-Paul Gauguin
8
The first mistake of Art is to
assume that it's serious.
-Lester Bangs
9
He knows all about art, but he
doesn't know what he likes.
-James Thurber
10
The role of art is to make a
world which can be inhabited.
-William Saroyan
11
The art of acting consists in
keeping people from coughing.
-Ralph Richardson
12
And like any artist with no art
form, she became dangerous.
-Toni Morrison
13
The art of being wise is the art
of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
14
Autobiography is the fine art of
reconciling fact with fiction.
-Unknown
15
Art for art's sake makes no more
sense then gin for gin's sake.
-W. Somerset Maugham
16
An artist never really finishes
his work; he merely abandons it.
-Paul Valery
17
Americans have mastered the art
of being prosperous though broke.
-Billy Boy Franklin
18
New artists must break a hole in
the subconscious and go fishing there.
-Robert B. Hale
19
To find a form that accommodates
the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
-Samuel Beckett
20
There are three things I have
always loved but never understood: art, music
and women.
-Fontenelle
21
A dilettante is one whose
interest in art consists of a little dabble and
a lot of babble.
-Unknown
22
Originality is the fine art of
remembering what you hear but forgetting where
you heard it.
-Laurence J. Peter
23
Most works of art, like most
wines, ought to be consumed in the district of
their fabrication.
-Rebecca West
24
Without tradition, art is a flock
of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation,
it is a corpse.
-Winston Churchill
25
The whole art of the political
speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much
more difficult than it sounds.
-Hilaire Belloc
26
To make us feel small in the
right way is a function of art; men can only
make us feel small in the wrong way.
-E. M. Forster
27
The difference between a bad
artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems
to copy a great deal; the good one really
does.
-William Blake
28
Never trust the artist. Trust the
tale. The proper function of the critic is to
save the tale from the artist who created it.
-D. H. Lawrence
29
Certainly we have bad paintings.
We have only the "greatest" bad paintings.
-Françoise Cachin
30
He drove his kind of realism at
me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective
painting.
-Jackson Pollock
31
It is a mistake for a sculptor or
a painter to speak or write very often about his
job. It releases tension needed for his work.
-Henry Moore
