Franz Grillparzer Quotes

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.

It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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

I believe in art.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid.

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

You need the art in order to love the life.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.