art Quotes

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

All art is quite useless.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.