Arts And Artists

(63 votes)   An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Evelyn Waugh
1903-1966, British Novelist

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(63 votes)   In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(63 votes)   Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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(62 votes)   Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean-Luc Godard
1930-, French Filmmaker, Author

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(62 votes)   The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(61 votes)   Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(61 votes)   Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Salman Rushdie
1948-, Indian-born British Author

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(61 votes)   The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling ''Kilroy was here'' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist

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(60 votes)   Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(60 votes)   As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Saul Bellow
1915-, American Novelist

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(60 votes)   If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(60 votes)   The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(59 votes)   Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(58 votes)   Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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