Art Lovers Quotes:

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Music, Happy Children, Fine Arts

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Funny, Music, Sarcastic, Fine Arts, Imperfect Person

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Art, Emotional, Feelings, Fine Arts, Impressionism

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

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

topic: Art, Pride, Taste, Art Lovers

During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

- Ernst Gombrich

source: Ernst Hans Gombrich (2002). “The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art”, Phaidon Press

topic: Art, Abuse, Taste, Insipid, Renowned

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

- James Gleick

topic: Art, Book, Cds, Music Lover, Art Lovers

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

- Bertolt Brecht

source: "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.

topic: Art, War, Hands, Art Lovers

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

- Ben Shahn

source: BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

topic: Art, Wall, Pride, Living Room Wall, Room Wall

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Art, Honesty, Integrity, Connoisseur, Active Minds

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

- Claude Monet

source: Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

topic: Depressing, Art, Lovers, Very Depressing, Art Lovers

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Art, Would Be, Opinion, Art Lovers

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

- Alice Walton

topic: Art, Horse, People, Art Lovers

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Running, Art, Memories, Perishing, Art Lovers

I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

- Laura Mullen

topic: Art, Book, Writing, Manuscripts, Guide Me