Art Quotes
Artists themselves fill the top places, which is unusual. Monet leads, then Erich Fromm, Renoir, John Galsworthy and Berthe Morisot, so the page has a lot of painters talking about painting. For the theory side, Tolstoy’s What Is Art? (1897) calls art a human activity whose purpose is to transmit the highest and best feelings to others, and Camus, in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), says that if the world were clear, art would not exist.
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream” is credited to Vincent van Gogh and flagged misattributed. The notes list early versions: a French form, “Je rêve mon tableau, et plus tard je peindrai mon rêve,” cited in a 1918 book, and English translations in the Musical Courier of 1908.
For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.
The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.
Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The thinking of art seems final when
The thinking of god is smoky dew.
Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.