Beautiful phrases about art. Quotes about art

Only he is gifted with a happy fate,
He is joyful whose heart is just.

Albukasim Ferdowsi

What is a poet? A person who writes poetry? Of course not. He is called a poet not because he writes in poetry; but he writes in verse, that is, he brings words and sounds into harmony, because he is the son of harmony, a poet.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.

Albrecht Durer

A wonderful imagination is as necessary for the historian as for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.

Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.

Anatole France

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death.

Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.

Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, take a few steps back... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, success and failure created them equally... Beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.

Only a bee recognizes the hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only an artist senses the trace of beauty in everything.

Afanasy Afanasievich Fet

When I create music, I don't think about it in isolation from the idea.

Benjamin Britten

An unmistakable sign that something is not art or someone does not understand art is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its goal is pleasure.

Bertolt Brecht

All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.

Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.

Bertolt Brecht

When humanity is destroyed, no more art. Unite beautiful words- this is not art.

Bertolt Brecht

The round dance has started - dance it to the end.

Bulgarian proverb

Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It relentlessly ponders death and relentlessly creates life.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, and creativity.

Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky

The third ability of the soul after mind and will is creativity.

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice.

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov

Life is not a burden, but wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev

Music - universal language peace.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I listen to music, I hear very clear answers to all my questions, and everything in me calms down and becomes clearer. Or, more precisely, I feel that these are not questions at all.

Gustav Mahler

In order to discover the laws belonging to the world of primary images, the artist must awaken to life as a person: almost all of his noble feelings, a considerable share of intelligence, intuition, and the desire to create must be developed in him.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The laws of Art originate not in the material, but in ideal world Where Beauty dwells, matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration extends.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The Lord created music as common language for people.

When love and craftsmanship come together, you can expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience- no creativity.

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

To always remain unsatisfied is the essence of creativity.

Jules Renard

Only a chosen one can create art,
Everyone loves art.

Julien Grün

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The layman imagines that in order to be creative one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep misconception.

Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky

High art not only reflects life, it, by participating in life, changes it.

Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg

In any work of art, great or small, everything down to the last detail depends on the design.

Art is a mediator of what cannot be expressed.

The impulse for creativity can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Not a single moment of creativity, even the initial moment of creativity, can occur without the work of imagination.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living has always consisted mainly of the ability to look forward.

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, which allows you to know the divine and human.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Music is a mediator between the life of the mind and the life of feelings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Each one has a genuine piece of music I have an idea.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Others, who love their art, devote themselves entirely to their work, forgetting to wash themselves and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver values ​​engraving, a dancer values ​​dancing, a money lover values ​​money, an ambitious person values ​​fame. Does generally useful activity really seem to you less significant and less worthy of effort?

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more reminiscent of the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires preparedness and resilience in the face of the unexpected and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

Most main tool An artist, which is formed through constant training, is faith in his ability to create miracles when necessary.

Mark Rothko

Art is jealous; it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Music rules autocratically and makes you forget about everything else.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through ordeal denial and ridicule.

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

A true artist must sacrifice herself to her art. Like a nun, she has no right to lead the life desired by most women.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

The spirit is the master, the imagination is the tool, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.

Paracelsus

Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Everyone is capable of creating well only what the muse inspires him to do.

Music inspires the whole world, supplies the soul with wings, promotes the flight of imagination...

The path to the abode of the muses, alas, is not wide and not straight.

Even ancient philosophers were fascinated by the human ability to create. Some considered her a gift from God. To others, this feature seemed like a curse. There were only indifferent people.

What do you think about this? creative personalities? Statements and quotes about art, with the help of which great people once expressed their opinions, will help you understand.

Creativity and the Universe

The modern pace of life leaves a person very little time to enjoy the beauty of the world. Sometimes only real creators manage to distract people from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and draw their attention to true values and make you think about the eternal. Many great quotes about art are devoted to this topic.

On the role of painting

True artists always have something to say to the world. From the depths of their consciousness, they bring to light original thoughts that amaze, delight and inspire those around them, once again reminding creative potential inherent in every person.

Introducing some quotes from artists about art that may pique the reader's interest.

Quotes from great artists about art and themselves

On the role of music

Writers about art

No less remarkable is the art of writing. Aphorisms, quotes and sayings famous authors- a clear confirmation of this.

ABOUT vital role art in the life of society has been said by many outstanding minds humanity. The works of writers, philosophers, scientists and public figures. Various opinions are expressed, which, in essence, boil down to general conclusion: Without the ability to see beauty and create, a person will lose his essence. We bring to the reader's attention quotes about art, as well as sayings of great people on this subject:

• Art is the daughter of freedom. (Friedrich Schiller).
• My imagination cannot create a picture of more complete happiness than continuing to live for the sake of creativity . (Clara Schumann).
• Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. (Victor Pinchuk).
• The skill of a writer lies in revealing what the reader believes. (Gustave Flaubert).
• Creativity allows itself to make mistakes. Art knows which ones to keep. (Scott Adams).
• Culture is the only thing that remains when everything else is forgotten . (Edouard Herriot).
• Creativity is the only way to escape without leaving home. (Twyla Tharp).
• Culture is art raised to a variety of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe).
• A beautiful body perishes, but it is eternal if recreated on the artist’s canvas. (Leonardo da Vinci).
• For me, creativity is an opportunity to give people a way to look at things differently. the world. (Maya Lin).
• Art is the engine of culture . (Nicholas Roerich).

Creativity and progress

The following quotes about art and its unbreakable connection with science also show the significant role of the creative component in the development of human society.

Architecture is music frozen in stone

Creativity surrounds people everywhere. Architecture is one of its most ancient directions. And even if there are few quotes about art embodied in stone, they are all the more interesting.

• Modern architecture is the art of filling space. (Philip Johnson).
• Architecture is visual art where the buildings speak for themselves . (Julia Morgan).
• Architecture - Residential Sculpture . (Constantin Brancusi).
• Architecture is the pursuit of truth. (Louis Kahn).
• Life is architecture, and architecture is the mirror of life. (Yu Ming Pei).
• Any work of architecture that does not express tranquility is a mistake. (Luis Barragan).

: In essence, art in life is much more important than life in art.

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Quotes and Aphorisms 27.06.2018

Dear readers, have you ever thought about what a person’s life would be like if there were no art in it? Nothing at all: no music, no painting, no books, no theater, no cinema, no dancing... It’s very difficult for me to imagine a world so gray and dull, where there is no possibility of spiritual self-expression, where there is no place for creativity. The role of art in the life of humanity is enormous. It gives answers to eternal questions, fills our world with colors, breathes life itself into us. This is exactly what is said so accurately and aptly in quotes and aphorisms about art.

The purpose of art is to ignite people's hearts

What is art? What is its purpose? Some believe that it is just a description of the reality around us, others that art too idealizes life, depicting it at all as it really is, others call this definition the transfer of feelings and emotions to other people through creativity. All these opinions are reflected in quotes and aphorisms about art.

“A work of art is a corner of the universe seen through the prism of a certain temperament.”

Emile Zola

“Too close resemblance to life is fatal to art.”

Ralph Emerson

“Art certainly strives for good, positively or negatively: whether it shows us the beauty of all the best that is in a person, or whether it laughs at the ugliness of all the worst in a person. If you expose all the rubbish that is in a person, and display it in such a way that each of the spectators will receive complete disgust for it, I ask: is this not already praise for everything good? I ask: isn’t this a praise of goodness?”

Nikolay Gogol

“All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.”

Bertolt Brecht

“Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and relentlessly creates life.”

Boris Pasternak

“Art is an attempt to create next to real world a different, more humane world."

“Art is a reality ordered by the artist, bearing the stamp of his temperament, which manifests itself in style.”

Andre Maurois

“Art is the expression of the deepest thoughts in the simplest way.”

Albert Einstein

“The task of art is not to copy nature, but to express it.”

Honore de Balzac

“Art is always a metaphor for reality.”

Yuri Bondarev

“Art is wisdom in the guise of beauty.”

“Art is the embodiment of beauty, a harmonious combination of parts. Art is not subject to reason, it is intuitive. Its comprehension comes before understanding by the mind. What is not beautiful is not art.”

Jorge Angel Livraga

“Art is such a need for a person as eating and drinking. The need for beauty and creativity, which embodies it, is inseparable from a person, and without it a person, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.”

Fedor Dostoevsky

Masterpieces are born in the throes of creativity

Creativity is an absolutely natural human state. It brings pleasure and pleasure, but do not forget that it also greatest work. In quotes and aphorisms about art and creativity, great writers, artists, and musicians share their thoughts about this.

“Without pain, spiritual fruit is not born. Creativity is like childbirth; until the fetus is ripe, it doesn’t come out, and when it comes out, it’s with suffering and effort.”

Lev Tolstoy

“Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.”

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Poets walk with their heels on the blade of a knife - and cut their barefoot souls to blood!”

Vladimir Vysotsky

“Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your own hands, which will live even after your death.”

“Every climb is painful. Rebirth is painful. Without being exhausted, I won’t be able to hear the music. Suffering and effort help the music to sound.”

“Has the effort seemed fruitless to you? Blind man, take a few steps back... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But believe me, success and failure have created them equally... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It's like self-torture."

Isaac Babel

“Yes, writing is not a pleasant activity at all, but exhausting work and torment. How much life force goes into work. They read it and think that, by the way, that’s how I wrote it casually. They don’t know that you spend weeks and months thinking about the plot. Some phrase doesn’t lie comfortably, so you don’t sleep half the night.”

Ivan Bunin

“There is nothing more destructive for the moral greatness and purity of art than the ease with which the most indifferent listener can at any moment enjoy the most sacred and sublime. For because of this accessibility, many forget the pains of creation and consume art without awe.”

Stefan Zweig

“Readers do not even suspect that the author wrote the text, which takes them several minutes to read, with the blood of his heart. The feelings that seem so authentic to them, he fully experienced himself, wetting his pillow with bitter tears.”

Somerset Maugham

Vasily Zhukovsky

“The need to write torments me like a torment from which I must certainly free myself. But creativity is never a pleasure for me. Depicting on paper the images and ideas that torment me is always hard work.”

George Byron

Great art serves great purposes

Real art never tells us what we should be, it does not give direct guidance to action and does not give clear answers to exciting questions. But it touches the deepest strings of the soul, makes you think about the meaning of life and removes language and national barriers between people. After all, when listening to “Ave Maria,” does it really matter that you don’t know Italian? How correctly it is said about this in quotes and aphorisms about real art.

“Real art differs from fakes in that it can find a way to the hardest heart and is capable of lifting one into the heavens for a second, into a world of complete and unfettered freedom.”

Victor Pelevin

“The true art of all peoples and centuries is understandable to all mankind.”

Konstantin Stanislavsky


 “Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it owns it.”

Albrecht Durer

“A sense of proportion in art is everything.”

Anatole France

“The struggle between the expressed content and the limitations expressive means there is a necessary precondition for the emergence of real art.”

Werner Heisenberg

“Art without a message is like an empty envelope.”

Jorge Angel Livraga

“People who make art their business are mostly scammers.”

Pablo Picasso

“A true artist is devoid of vanity; he understands too well that art is inexhaustible.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Where the spirit does not guide the artist’s hand, there is no art.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Beauty cannot be known, it must be felt or created.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Art never addresses the crowd, the masses, it speaks to an individual, in the deep and hidden recesses of his soul."

Maximilian Voloshin

“The highest goal of art is to make people beat. human heart, and since the heart is the center of life, art must constantly be in the closest connection with the entire moral and material life of mankind.”

Jean Marie Guyot

“Simplicity, truth and sincerity are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.”

Christophor Gluck

“You can lie in love, in politics, in medicine you can deceive people, but in art you cannot deceive.”

Anton Chekhov

“This is the sign of real art, that it is always modern, urgent, and useful.”

Fedor Dostoevsky

Great people about art

Art appeared even earlier than religion and science. And this is not surprising, because the need for beauty and harmony is inherent in humans from the very beginning. Already in ancient times, philosophers recognized its enormous influence on the formation of a person’s character, his personality, and spiritual qualities. This is so wisely stated in quotes and aphorisms of great people about art.

"Art never dies."

Gaius Petronius Arbiter

“The arts soften morals.”

Publius Ovid Naso

“Life is short, the path of art is long.”

Hippocrates

“The spirit is the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is sufficient to illuminate every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.”

Paracelsus

“Life is learned from books and works of art, perhaps even more than from life itself.”

Theodore Dreiser

To create means to kill death.

Romain Rolland

“The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.”

“Art without the thought that a person without a soul is a corpse.”

Vissarion Belinsky

A work of art is fog sculpted into an image.

Gibran Khalil

“Art may go through times of decline, but it is eternal, like life itself.”

Fyodor Chaliapin

“The greatness of art lies in this eternal tense dichotomy between beauty and suffering, love for people and passion for creativity, the torment of loneliness and irritation from the crowd, rebellion and harmony. Art balances between two abysses - frivolity and propaganda. On the crest of the ridge along which he goes forward great artist, every step is an adventure, the greatest risk. In this risk, however, and only in this lies the freedom of art.”

“Art has bouts of chastity. It cannot call a spade a spade.”

Albert Camus

“In all forms of art, you yourself need to experience the sensations that you want to evoke in others.”

Frederic de Stendhal

“Art is the most beautiful, the most strict, the most joyful and good symbol of man’s eternal, unreasonable desire for good, for truth and perfection.”

Thomas Mann

They create art...

Painting, along with music, is one of the oldest species art. When food and warmth were no longer enough for a person to be happy, the first music and the first drawings began to be born. ABOUT real strength and the greatness of creativity is spoken of in quotes from great artists and musicians about art.

“A painter who sketches senselessly, guided by practice and the judgment of the eye, is like a mirror that reflects all the objects opposed to it, without having knowledge of them.”

“Painter, be careful that the greed for earnings does not overcome the honor of art in you, for the earnings of honor are much more significant than the honor of wealth.”

“Painting argues and competes with nature.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is jealous and does not tolerate rivals; She replaces my wife and causes quite enough household troubles. My works will be my children.”

“A creation can outlive its creator: the creator will leave, defeated by nature,

However, the image he captured will warm hearts for centuries.

I live in thousands of souls in the hearts of all those who love

And that means I am not dust, and mortal decay will not touch me.”

Michelangelo Buonarrotti

Art is a terrible disease, but it is still impossible to live without it.

Salvador Dali

“Painting is an activity for the blind. The artist paints not what he sees, but what he feels.”

“Art is a lie that makes us aware of the truth.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Art washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul.”

Pablo Picasso

“Art is not what you see, but what it makes others see.”

Edgar Degas

“I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.”

Nicholas Roerich

“Without imagination there is no art, just as there is no science.”

Franz Liszt

“Inspiration is the kind of guest who does not like to visit the lazy.”

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“The purpose of music is to touch hearts.”

Johann Sebastian Bach

“To create beauty, you yourself must be pure in soul.”


Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

“You have to feel strongly for others to feel.”

Nicolo Paganini

“In modern art there are two ways: denial and continuation of traditions. Creation is the path of continuation. It is important to realize that the continuation of tradition does not deprive the artist of freedom of expression.”

Ilya Gofman

“Since we started having art connoisseurs, art itself has gone to hell.”

Richard Wagner

About contemporary art

Concepts of beauty change over time, as has always been the case. Art cannot remain unchanged; it also changes, just like our lives. Rhythm modern life has become much faster, it is literally eventful and it is not surprising that new genres and trends in creativity have appeared. They can be treated differently, because we all have the right to own opinion. I bring to your attention a selection of quotes and aphorisms on the topic contemporary art.

“Previously, they were afraid that the number of objects of art might include objects that corrupt people, and they banned it all. Now they are only afraid of losing some kind of pleasure given by art, and they patronize everyone. And I think that the latter error is much grosser than the first and that its consequences are much more harmful.”

Lev Tolstoy

“Modern painting is when you buy a painting to cover a hole in the wall, and you come to the conclusion that the hole looks better.”

Robert Orben

“Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation.”

Thierry Guetta

"Music is international language expressing people's emotions and feelings. This is the most popular genre contemporary art, where, it seems to me, there is enough space for everyone.”

Jon Lord

Sergey Vedenie

“The problem with cinema these days is that it becomes math. People can read a film mathematically; they know when it will happen and what will happen; after about 30 minutes they understand how it will end. Thus the film became mathematical solution. And it’s boring because art is not mathematics.”

Nicolas Winding Refn

“Art is not a mirror of reality, but an integral part of it.”

Alex Gromov

“Modern art is like women, you can’t enjoy it if you try to understand it.”

The soul of every person is drawn to beauty, so quotes about art are collected here especially for this purpose. Wonderful works creative people can be fascinating and breathtaking. That is why so many people left comments about art.

Everything passes - love, art, planet Earth, you, me. Especially me…
Frederick Beigbeder. 99 francs

When they brought it to Moscow Sistine Madonna“Everyone went to look at her. Faina Georgievna overheard a conversation between two officials from the Ministry of Culture. One claimed that the picture did not make an impression on him. Ranevskaya noted:
“This lady has been impressing such people for so many centuries that now she herself has the right to choose who she impresses and who she doesn’t!”
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya

A lie is fiction, fiction is art, which means all art is a lie.
Stephen King. Hopelessness

Tell me, Driss, why do you think people are drawn to art?
- Maybe because it's profitable?
- No, it's the only way leave a mark on the earth.
Film “1+1 / Intouchables”

If art once entered your life, quotes about it will help you feel its full power even better.

Revealing oneself to people and hiding the artist is what art strives for.

If you seriously want to disappoint your parents, but you are not into homosexuality, go into art.
Kurt Vonnegut

There is an art to breaking bad news.
TV series "House M.D."

London fogs did not exist until art discovered them.
Oscar Wilde

Ideal music is silence, and musicians create beautiful frame around this perfection.
Sting

The most suitable clothing for a young red-haired girl - Lady Godiva's outfit.
Brianna Reed. Oak branches

With art I straighten myself out and infect normal people.
Salvador Dali

In essence, Art is a mirror that reflects whoever looks into it, and not life at all.
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Grey

Art lies in finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary.
Denis Diderot

There is no art without pain; at the same time, art exists to compensate for pain.
Till Lindemann

I'm so sick of people who think that art should be beautiful and pleasing to the eye. Art can be beautiful while at the same time being scary, grotesque or frightening. This doesn't make it any less significant. If people are scared or shocked, they should ask themselves why, rather than respond with censorship.
Marilyn Manson

Art that has lasting value cannot be appreciated by the majority, only a small percentage will show understanding and appreciate it.
Kurt Cobain

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