Paul Allen Quotes

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I believe in art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

The best of any artist is in their art.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'