Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
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