Art

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. – David Herbert Lawrence

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. – Alexander Pope

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. – Michelangelo

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. – Harry S. Truman

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. – Henry Miller

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. – Marshall McLuhan

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. – Clara Schumann

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. – William Wordsworth

Art is science made clear. – Wilson Mizner

Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. – Theodor Adorno

Things are beautiful if you love them. – Jean Anouilh

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. – Gustave Flaubert

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. – Paul Gauguin

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. – Igor Stravinsky