Quotes about art
621 quotes from 285 people
William Hazlitt1778–1830“Thoughts on Taste”, Edinburgh Magazine (July 1819), final paragraph
John Updike1932–2009On J. D. Salinger, from a review of his Franny and Zooey, in Studies in J. D. Salinger: Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction (1963) edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, p. 231
Matthew Arnold1822–1888Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light- Matthew Arnold1822–1888Essays in Criticism, second series (1888), Count Leo Tolstoi
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
John Ruskin1819–1900Lectures on Art (1870), Lecture IIISweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Personal Talk, Stanza 2Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil1909–1943The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
Dylan Thomas1914–1953Poetic Manifesto (1951)
Emma Goldman1869–1940Intellectual Proletarians (1914)
Alejandro Jodorowskyborn 1929Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)- IMIris Murdoch1919–1999The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994As quoted in M.E.A.T. (September 1991)I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo1907–1954As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903)In contextSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
