Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
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