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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet on art

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper on art

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper on art

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper on art

Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates on art

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno on art

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker on art

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Paul Cezanne on art

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne on art

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch on art

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry on art

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound on art

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner on art

Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid on art

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus on art

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on art

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
Tom Stoppard on art

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti on art

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter on art

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire on art