Paul Cezanne Quotes

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

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

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.

Normal people do not create art.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

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

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

Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

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

I believe in art.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Art transcends cultural boundaries.