ART QUOTES

CULTURE

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Norman Mailer

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
Horst Koehler

ARTISTS

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

ART

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
G. K. Chesterton

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Paul Klee

PAINTINGS

“malen=verbrennen” (Anselm Kiefer)
“verbrennen=leuchten” (eq)

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh