Best beauty & art-is Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.”

Art Beauty Principles Highest Art Is Ultimate Aim

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.”

Doe Art Beauty Art Is Excellence Saved

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.”

Ifs Art Beautiful Strong Beauty Grace Youth Truth Is Art Is Worthy Thee Grace Of God

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.”

Art Difficult Beauty Art Is Tasks Difficult Tasks Milieu

Author:Theophile Gautier

“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.”

Way Doe Art Beautiful Beauty Subjects Art Is Overcoming Ugly Tied Representation Avoiding Inseparable Pictorial

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.”

Persons Art Able Beauty Growing Sweet Flower Singing Art Is Cooking Add Meals Pet Parts Of Life

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.”

Art Common Beauty Highest Art Is Aim Vulgar Wretched Ugliness

Book:The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”

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Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.”

Should Mean Long Art Ends Spirit Purpose Beauty Music Painting Drama Art Is Realism Idealism Attainment Inner Life Subservient

Author:Julia Marlowe

“Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?”

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Author:Brassai

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.”

Art Effort Beauty Flower Succeed Art Is Competition Architecture Sunshine

Author:Gian Carlo Menotti

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”

Art Turns Games Beauty Art Is Philosopher Invention Aesthetic Aesthetics

Book:On Poets and Others

Source: On Poets and Others

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”

Art Beauty Art Is Architecture Ugliness Being Beautiful

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.”

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Book:The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.”

Way Heart Art Nature Beauty Plans My Heart Art Is My Way Dull

Book:Verses on Various Occasions

Source: Verses on Various Occasions

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

Humans Art Ends Matter Artist Beauty Art Is Sensible Disposition

Author:Milan Kundera

“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”

“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.”

Art Beauty Art Is Dear Vary Marble Dear God Nature And Art

Author:Victor Hugo

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