The author of the statement art is a human activity. Quotes about art. Tone stretching with pencil

The airbrush technique is quite complex and requires the use of additional materials. In this section we will talk about those that are necessary for making illustrations using an airbrush.

Just like any other painting technique, airbrushing allows you to create images on the surface of the base. However, its peculiarity is that

Eight secrets in drawing

Eight secrets that will allow you
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1. Correct construction of objects in space

This skill is the foundation for any professional artist. It will create a sense of volumetric space in your painting, which is very important. This alone will greatly improve your paintings.

2. Proper application of strokes

With the help of strokes, a background is created for the future volume of forms and objects - this is the main basis. When you learn how to apply them correctly, everything you draw will become more saturated and clear.

3. Tone stretching with a pencil

Another secret of the masters. When you learn how to do tonal stretching with a pencil from simple to complex, and dial in tone with pencils of varying softness, you will be surprised at how much more realistic your drawings will become.

4. The art of drawing three-dimensional figures

Another skill that separates people who are great at drawing from those who are new to drawing. This is the ability to give volume to objects that differ in shape, working with light and reflex, one’s own shadow and penumbra. These skills will make your work much better.

5. The ability to work with your own shadow on figures to add volume

This is also important to be able to do if you want to masterfully depict three-dimensional objects and create realistic paintings.

6. Effective construction of falling shadows

The type and shape of falling shadows depends not only on the figure cast by it, but also on the location of the light source. Once you have mastered this skill, you will be able to draw the falling shadows of various geometric shapes, but also apply this knowledge to objects of various shapes.

7. The ability to distinguish objects by tone

Thanks to this, you will not only be able to show the difference between objects and forms, but also indicate the compositional center, which is very important for constructing a composition.

8. Composition skill

But this is the most important knowledge that will “revive” your painting and fill it with meaning, will make the viewer think about what mood you were in at the time of creating the painting, what exactly you wanted to tell the viewer. Knowing composition will allow you to “say” with your painting what you cannot say in words...

... and many other skills and secrets that the world's best artists possess.

How to quickly master the main skills of professional artists?

Of course you can enroll in an art school. However, this is possible if you have a lot of free time. Unfortunately, not everyone can spend several hours a day getting to and from school.

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Art is an infection of other people's feelings.

Lev Tolstoy

Art is thinking in images.

Vissarion Belinsky

The artist's task is to make people children.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is always modern.

Fedor Dostoevsky

Science makes us gods, art makes us people.

Arkady Davidovich

The closer to heaven, the colder it gets.

Anton Delvig

If it is art, then it is not for everyone, and if it is for everyone, then it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg

Science calms, but art exists to prevent calm.

Georges Braque

Muses are not the kind of girls who can always be raped. They will love whoever they want.

Mikhail Lomonosov

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Every artist who depicts the sky as green and the grass as blue must be sterilized.

Adolf Gitler

Art is always a limitation. The meaning of every picture is in its frame.

Gilbert Chesterton

Life is short, but the path of art is long.

Hippocrates

The purpose of art is to reveal beauty and hide the artist.

Oscar Wilde

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven.

Richard Wagner

Art is loved by those who have failed in life.

Vasily Klyuchevsky

I know that art is absolutely necessary, but I don’t know why.

Jean Cocteau

Art is the ability to see the invisible, touch the intangible and draw what has no form.

Joseph Joubert

Art does not influence human activity; on the contrary, it paralyzes the desire to act.

Oscar Wilde

No one lies more in art than realists.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less artist, the better.

Andre Gide

The history of art is the history of renaissances.

Samuel Butler

Nature is by no means the mother who nurtured us. She is our creation. Life imitates Art much more than Art follows Life.

Oscar Wilde

To be in tune with your era? But at least an octave higher.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Such is the nature of art: the artist cannot suffer alone.

Hans Keller

Science is spectral analysis, art is the synthesis of light.

Karl Kraus

True art has no worse enemy than a baby stroller in the hallway.

Cyril Connolly

The best school for studying art is art itself, not life.

Oscar Wilde

Handel had the gift of persuasion. When his music sounds on the words "seated on his eternal throne", the atheist is speechless, and you begin to believe in God, seated on the eternal throne by Handel.

George Bernard Shaw

Modesty is the artist’s right, vanity is his duty.

Karl Kraus

The purpose of art is to rub our eyes.

Karl Kraus

Favorable conditions? There are none for the artist. Life itself is an unfavorable condition.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Theory is a monologue, art is a dialogue in which the interlocutor is silent.

Grigory Landau

Prisons with stained glass windows inserted into the bars.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

To be modern means to be ahead of your time just enough to allow it to catch up with you without difficulty.

Louise de Vilmorin

Art without individuality is impossible. Although at the same time its purpose is not to express individuality. It exists to provide pleasure.

Oscar Wilde

A well-chosen boutonniere is the only link between Art and Nature.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the only serious thing in the world, but the artist is the only person in the world who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

A soap bubble is the most beautiful and most perfect thing that exists in nature.

Mark Twain

People of art have gender, but art itself has no gender.

Oscar Wilde

In no case does art reproduce its age. The great mistake of all historians is that they judge the era itself by the art of the era.

Oscar Wilde

If a lion could be stuffed into a canary's cage, he would chirp here!

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The more art imitates an era, the less it conveys its spirit.

Oscar Wilde

Nero's lyre was a tuning fork.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

She was endowed with the impressionability of a true artist - and none of his other qualities.

Max Beerbohm

Great artists have no fatherland.

Alfred de Musset

They try to appeal to the authority of Shakespeare - they always appeal to him - and quote that poorly written passage where it is said about the mirror that Art holds up to Nature, forgetting that this unfortunate aphorism was put, not without reason, in the mouth of Hamlet, so that those around him would have an extra an opportunity to see his complete madness when it comes to art.

Oscar Wilde

If Galileo had written in poetry that the Earth moves, the Inquisition would probably have left him alone.

Thomas Hardy

I can make ten grandees out of ten Castilian men, but even out of ten grandees I cannot make one Velazquez.

Philip IV

Art can only be learned from those who earn their living from it.

Samuel Butler

And Catholicism eventually became an applied art.

Adolf Nowachinsky

The artist is a liar, but art is the truth.

Andre Maurois

Art was more of a blanket than a mirror.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the nature of man, nature is the art of God.

Philip Bailey

Bach almost makes me believe in God.

Roger Fry

Art requires sacrifices, but it does not accept them from everyone.

A. Karabchievsky

In fact, art reflects not life, but the viewer.

Oscar Wilde

The national artist organizes the fantasy of the nation, just as the national politician organizes the forces of the state.

Ciprian Norwid

Art is the mystery of the birth of an old word.

Karl Kraus

In a free society, art is not a weapon, and artists are not engineers of human souls.

John Kennedy

Only art allows us to say even what we don’t know.

Gabriel Laub

A thing that exists in nature becomes much more beautiful if it resembles an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful by resembling a thing that exists in nature.

Oscar Wilde

Art could not live even without the person who could do without art.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

London fogs did not exist until art discovered them.

Oscar Wilde

A lasting work of art is always mutilated: its time has been amputated.

Andre Malraux

Having finished with education, he took up culture.

Leonid Leonidov

An artist is not a special kind of person, but every person is a special kind of artist.

Eric Gill

The career of an artist is like the career of a courtesan: first for one’s own pleasure, then for someone else’s, and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

In art, only someone who is uneducated enough to not know that everything has already been said can say something new.

Gabriel Laub

An artist is a person who can turn a solution into a problem.

Karl Kraus

An artist can be defined as a neurotic who is continuously cured by art.

Lee Simonson

Art is a way to experience the making of a thing, and what is done in art is not important.

Boris Shklovsky

You can forgive a person who does something useful, as long as he does not admire it. For those who create something useless, their only justification is passionate love for their creation. All art is completely useless.

Oscar Wilde

Art creates great archetypes, in relation to which everything that exists is only an unfinished copy.

Oscar Wilde

Art created for twelve people eventually becomes the property of twelve million.

Thaddeus Peyper

Horses and poets must be fed, but not overfed.

Charles IX

Only a born artist is able to work hard enough to become one.

Duchess Diana

Don't try to be modern. This is the only thing that will not escape you, no matter how hard you try.

Salvador Dali

People who have nothing in common with art should have nothing in common with it. Just?

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

When a culture feels its end is coming, it sends for a priest.

Karl Kraus

If anyone calls something art, it is art.

Donald Judd

Art is a jealous lover.

Ralph Emerson

There is no progress in art. There is a spiral.

Sergey Dovlatov

Modern trends have imagined that art is like a fountain, whereas it is a sponge. They decided that art should hit, while it should suck and be saturated. They considered that it can be decomposed into means of representation, while it consists of organs of perception. It should always be in the audience and look at everyone cleaner, more receptive and more faithful, but these days it has learned the powder, the dressing room and appears from the stage.

Boris Pasternak

Yes, art is useless, but its uselessness is necessary.

Eugene Ionesco

The divergence of nature and art - A deception for the eyes: their meeting is feasible... - translation: M. N. Rozanov

Johann Goethe

The highest art is to hide it.

Denis Diderot

Learn to love the art in yourself, and not yourself in the art.

Konstantin Stanislavsky

Perhaps art is simply the body’s reaction to its own small capacity.

Joseph Brodsky

The only art of being happy is to realize that happiness is in your hands.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Richard Wagner

That is why the power of art is so great that the results of its influence cannot be foreseen in advance.

Yuri Grachevsky

What about art? - Only a game, Similar only to life, similar only to fire. Burning ashes of a fire.

Antonio Machado

In art, perhaps, at most, when you don’t understand where the power comes from.

Ilya Erenburg

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

Emile Zola

There is craft raised to art, and art reduced to craft.

Leonid Zorin

Art is a mystery!

Edvard Grieg

A masterpiece is squalor brought to perfection.

Boris Krieger

All fine art is eroticism embodied.

Yuri Perov

Practicing art requires complete self-denial.

Erik Satie

There is only one valuable thing about art: you cannot explain it.

Georges Braque

There were artists who progressed in their movement, and there were those who repeatedly and significantly changed their style. But there was no one who would have moved so far from himself that the two periods of his work - early and late - seem to be something lying on completely different planes, as if different arts, not to mention the fact that it is difficult for those who do not know to attribute them to the activity of one person.

Leonid Sabaneev

Painting argues and competes with nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

People who are imbued with art become not only more cultured and worthy of interest, they become better in the broadest sense - kinder, wiser and more beautiful - they become more peaceful, more active, more sensitive.

Julian Barnes

The secret of art is to listen to the unsaid, to admire the invisible.

Vsevolod Ovchinnikov

Leonid Zorin

All art is good as long as it does not become a subject of bargaining.

Boris Krieger

Life is beautiful, but it has no form. The task of art is precisely to give it this form and, with the help of all kinds of artificial techniques, to create something more truthful than truth itself.

Jean Anouilh

We are faced with the saving limitation that allowed great art to arise. This limitation to an act of faith cuts off a potentially limitless flow of questions. Naturally, the strict discipline imposed by the liturgy must become an internal need, turn into a voluntarily put on fiery hair shirt of the soul, become a boundary accepted with a warm heart, and not protected by the police. There are mystical and police limitations, and if these latter do not lead to the emergence of great works, then just because the policeman controls others, he is not an inspired servant of his own art, deifying official instructions. Therefore, the prohibition must come from above, the line must be given in revelation and accepted by an ardent heart that does not question any authority or justification, it must be indisputable, just as the leaves, stars, and sand underfoot are indisputable. Therefore, faith must be embodied in a completely inflexible, absolute reality. And only in this way does the spirit - bound, submissive, but trying, with constant obedience, to express the world and itself, having such little space for ingenuity, in a narrow strip of freedom creates great works. This applies to all forms of art that are guided by deadly seriousness, forms that exclude detachment, irony, ridicule - is it possible to laugh at gravel, a bird's wing, the setting of the moon and the sun? Dance, for example, represents only apparent freedom - the dancer only plays at it, submitting in reality to the dictates of the score, which specifies his every premeditated movement, and individual self-expression appears only in the cracks left for interpretation. Of course, such sublime restrictions can be found outside of religion, but then they have to be given a sacred character and believe that they are inevitable and not far-fetched. The awareness of what can be done differently, the rejection of rigid necessity in favor of an ocean of mastered techniques, styles, methods, methods fetters thought and hands with freedom of choice. - translation: E. P. Weisbrot, 1969, 1993. This is the development of Goethe’s thought from the last three lines of the poem “Nature and Art” (1800).

Stanislav Lem

An excessive desire for aesthetics can swallow up any capital.

Boris Krieger

But what is art? The concepts of art are as conditional as the concepts of good and evil. Every century, every country looks at good and evil differently; what is considered valor in one country is considered a crime in another. In addition to these differences of time and place, mingled with the question of art is the endless variety of individual tastes. In France, which considers itself the most cultural country in the world, Shakespeare was not understood or recognized until this century: many such examples can be recalled. And it seems to me that there is no such poor man, such a savage, in whom the feeling of beauty does not sometimes flare up, only their artistic understanding is different. It is very likely that the village men, sitting on the grass around a home-grown balalaika player or guitarist on a warm spring evening, enjoy no less than the conservatory professors listening to Bach fugues in the stuffy hall.

Alexey Apukhtin

After all, in order for true art to be born, a slave system is absolutely necessary. Among the ancient Greeks, slaves tilled the fields, cooked food and rowed galleys - while the townspeople indulged in poetry and mathematics under the Mediterranean sun. And it was art.

Haruki Murakami

Should art be understandable? Yes, but only for those to whom it is addressed.

Stanislav Jerzy Lec

People's tastes inevitably change over time, and what one generation considers only fit for a landfill will seem like an antique value to the next.

Shirley Conran

Life is not a highway, but art lifts a person and often takes him aside.

Ilya Erenburg

Turn art into a lens to view all facets of life. To draw or paint objects, it is not enough to simply imitate what you see. It is necessary to understand these subjects first. Give your art its own life.

Kevin Anderson

Nature knows two minds:
the mind of animals and from God!

A donkey drinks water in the river -
tongue thirsty.
Man putting his palm up
invented the first glass!

And the pinnacle of beauty -
crater found in Pompeii:
centuries the rosary does not fade
naked muteness...

Animals have keener senses
but what should they do in the museum?

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Statements of great people about art

Hippocrates
- Life is short, art is eternal!

Alexandre Dumas - son
- Art requires either solitude, or need, or passion. Whether he holds a chisel, a pen or a brush in his hand, the artist truly deserves this name only when he infuses soul into material objects or gives form to spiritual impulses.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Where the spirit does not guide the artist’s hand, there is no art.

Giordano Bruno
- Art makes up for the shortcomings of nature.

Salvador Dali
- Painting is a hand-made color photograph of all possible, super-exquisite, unusual, super-aesthetic examples of specific irrationality.

L. N. Tolstoy
- Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.

Honore de Balzac
- Constant work is the law of both art and life.

Hegel
- Genuine immortal works of art remain accessible and bring pleasure to all times and peoples.

Emile Zola
- A work of art is a piece of nature filtered through the artist’s temperament.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Drawing for an artist is the same as for an orator in Demosthenes: he should be in first, second and third place.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Painting is poetry that is seen, and poetry is painting that is heard.

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
- To refuse risk means to refuse creativity.

Boris Pasternak
- The purpose of creativity is dedication,
Not hype, not success.
When a line is dictated by a feeling,
It sends a slave to the stage,
And this is where the art ends,
And the soil and fate breathe.

Seneca
- The arts are useful only if they develop the mind and do not distract it.

Michelangelo

T. Dreiser
- Art is a powerful means of correcting human imperfections.

A. N. Tolstoy
- Perceiving art... is as difficult as creating it.

Cicero
- Everything beautiful is rare.

G. Flaubert
- All colors are good, you just need to know how to paint with them.

P. Picasso
- Why try to understand art? You are not trying to understand what the bird is singing about.

Euripides
- No, I will not leave, Muses, your altar... There is no true life without art.

L.N. Tolstoy
- Art is one of the means of uniting people.

V. Goethe
- We need an artist even in moments of greatest happiness and greatest misfortune.

Andre Gide
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less artist, the better.

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

Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Art is jealous: it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.

G. Hegel
- Art has as its task to reveal the truth in a sensual form.

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

Alexandrov Georgy
- Higher art is a slice of time frozen for centuries.

Malevich K
- The time has long come to understand that the problems of art and the problems of the stomach are very far from each other.

Sand Georges
- The roads leading to art are full of thorns, but you can also pick beautiful flowers along them.

Leonardo Vinci
- Painting argues and competes with nature.

Helvetius Claude Adrian
- The task of art is to excite hearts.

Schiller Johann Friedrich
- Precisely because true art strives for something real and objective, it cannot be satisfied with only the appearance of truth.

Anatole France
- There is no need to be especially afraid of attributing to the artists of the past an ideal that they never had. Admiration is impossible without an admixture of illusion, and to understand a perfect work of art means, in general, to re-create it in one’s inner world. The same works are reflected differently in the soul of those who contemplate. Each generation looks for new emotions in the creations of old masters. The most gifted viewer is the one who finds, at the cost of a few successful false interpretations, the most tender and strongest emotion. Therefore, humanity experiences a passionate attachment mainly to such works of art and poetry that contain dark places that allow for the possibility of different understandings.

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-99)

Letters about the Good and the Beautiful

Letter thirty-two
(fragments)

UNDERSTAND ART

So, life is the greatest value that a person has. If you compare life to a precious palace with many halls that stretch in endless enfilades, which are all generously varied and all different from each other, then the largest hall in this palace, the real “throne room”, is the hall in which art reigns. This is a hall of amazing magic. And the first magic he performs happens not only to the owner of the palace himself, but also to everyone invited to the celebration.

This is a hall of endless celebrations that make a person’s whole life more interesting, more solemn, more fun, more significant... I don’t know what other epithets to express my admiration for art, for its works, for the role it plays in the life of mankind. And the greatest value that art rewards a person is the value of kindness. Awarded with the gift of understanding art, a person becomes morally better, and therefore happier. Yes, happier! For, awarded through art with the gift of a good understanding of the world, the people around him, the past and the distant, a person makes friends more easily with other people, with other cultures, with other nationalities, it is easier for him to live.

But understanding works of art is far from easy. You have to learn this - learn for a long time, all your life. For there can be no stop in expanding your understanding of art. There can only be a retreat back into the darkness of misunderstanding. After all, art constantly confronts us with new and new phenomena, and this is the enormous generosity of art. Some doors opened for us in the palace, followed by others.

They often say about someone: he has innate taste. Not at all! If you look closely at those people who can be said to have taste, you will notice that they all have one thing in common: they are honest and sincere in their sensibility. They learned a lot from her.

I have never noticed that taste is inherited.

Taste, I think, is not one of the properties that are transmitted by genes. Although the family cultivates taste and from the family, much depends on its intelligence.

You should not approach a work of art with bias, based on established “opinion,” fashion, the views of your friends, or the views of your enemies. One must be able to remain “one on one” with a work of art.

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Nietzsche's aesthetics. "Art was Given to us so as not to Die from the Truth."

Should art be understandable? Yes, but only for those to whom it is addressed.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

If art is not confined to the four walls of a room, it can be confined to the four walls of a cell.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Art goes ahead, and the guards follow.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Art is the ability to see the invisible, touch the intangible and draw what has no form.
Joseph Joubert (1754 – 1824), French writer

Art is thinking in images.
Vissarion Belinsky (1811 – 1848), critic

Art is an infection of other people's feelings.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), writer

Art was more of a blanket than a mirror.
(1854 – 1900), English writer

Art is the mystery of the birth of an old word.

Art is always a limitation. The meaning of every picture is in its frame.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874 – 1936), English writer

Science is spectral analysis; art is a synthesis of light.
Karl Kraus

Science calms, but art exists to prevent calm.
Georges Braque (1882 – 1963), French artist

Theory is a monologue, art is a dialogue in which the interlocutor is silent.
Grigory Landau (1877 – 1941), philosopher, critic

Art is a jealous lover.
Ralph Emerson (1803 – 1882), American writer

Art is a way to experience the making of a thing, and what is done in art is not important.
Boris Shklovsky (1893 – 1984), writer, literary critic

If anyone calls something art, it is art.
Donald Judd (b. 1928), American sculptor

I know that art is absolutely necessary, but I don’t know why.
Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963), French playwright

Only art allows us to say even what we don’t know.
Gabriel Laub (b. 1928), Czech-German aphorist

The purpose of art is to rub our eyes.
Karl Kraus (1874 – 1936), Austrian writer

The purpose of art is to reveal beauty and hide the artist.

The artist's task is to make people children.
(1844 – 1900), German philosopher

Art without individuality is impossible. Although at the same time its purpose is not to express individuality. It exists to provide pleasure.
Oscar Wilde

Science makes us gods; art is by people.
Arkady Davidovich (b. 1930), writer

Art is human nature; nature is the art of God.
Philip Bailey (1816 – 1902), English poet

Nature is by no means the mother who nurtured us. She is our creation. Life imitates Art much more than Art follows Life.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), English writer

Art creates great archetypes, in relation to which everything that exists is only an unfinished copy.
Oscar Wilde

God created Italy according to Michelangelo's design.

A thing that exists in nature becomes much more beautiful if it resembles an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful by resembling a thing that exists in nature.
Oscar Wilde

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

A soap bubble is the most beautiful and most perfect thing that exists in nature.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American writer

They try to appeal to the authority of Shakespeare - they always appeal to him - and quote that poorly written passage where it is said about the mirror that Art holds up to Nature, forgetting that this unfortunate aphorism was put, not without reason, in the mouth of Hamlet, so that those around him would have an extra an opportunity to see his complete madness when it comes to art.
Oscar Wilde

A well-chosen boutonniere is the only link between Art and Nature.
Oscar Wilde

Nero's lyre was a tuning fork.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 – 1966), Polish writer

In a free society, art is not a weapon, and artists are not engineers of human souls.
John Kennedy (1917 – 1963), US President

People who have nothing in common with art should have nothing in common with it. Just?
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

The greater the artist, the more strongly he should desire the ranks and orders that serve as his protection.
Stendhal (1783 – 1842), French writer

Beelzebub encourages art. He guarantees his artists peace, good food and absolute isolation from hellish life.
Zbigniew Herbert (1924 – 1998), Polish poet

Prisons with stained glass windows inserted into the bars.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

Horses and poets must be fed, but not overfed.
Charles IX (1550 – 1574), French king

“But I have to live!” - “I don’t see the need.”
Dialogue of a certain French writer of the 15th century. with Minister d'Argenson

Poets should be expelled from the state.
Paraphrased thought of Plato

I can make ten grandees out of ten Castilian men, but even out of ten grandees I cannot make one Velazquez.
Philip IV (1621 – 1665), King of Spain

Having finished with education, he took up culture.
Leonid Leonidov (b. 1940), satirist

And the nightingale can help the plowman, if you don’t put a collar on him.
Leszek Kumor, Polish aphorist

If a lion could be stuffed into a canary's cage, he would chirp here!
Stanislav Jerzy Lec

If Galileo had written in poetry that the Earth moves, the Inquisition would probably have left him alone.
Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928), English writer

Finally, physicists and lyricists have nothing to share - both are in the fold.
Emilius the Architect, author of the 16th page of “LG”

To be modern means to be ahead of your time just enough to allow it to catch up with you without difficulty.
Louise de Vilmorin (1902 – 1969), French writer

To be in tune with your era? But at least an octave higher.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 – 1966), Polish poet and aphorist

A lasting work of art is always mutilated: its time has been amputated.
André Malraux (1901 – 1976), French writer

Art is always modern.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881), writer

The more art imitates an era, the less it conveys its spirit.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), English writer

The history of art is the history of renaissances.
Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902), English writer

In no case does art reproduce its age. The great mistake of all historians is that they judge the era itself by the art of the era.
Oscar Wilde

Don't try to be modern. This is the only thing that will not escape you, no matter how hard you try.
Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989), Spanish artist

There is no modern art. There is only art - and advertising.
Albert Sterner

True artists are equally successful in types of scoundrels and decent people. V. G. Belinsky

A true depiction of moral ugliness. more powerful than all attacks against him. V. G. Belinsky

With works of art, as with people: they can be sweet even with the greatest flaws. L. Burnet

An artist can be a historian, a poet, a philosopher, and an observer. And it is truly so: all the great artists together were learned people. A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

Great art should not defile itself by turning to immoral subjects. L. Beethoven

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

The ultimate goal of art is to encourage people to do what they need to do and realize what they know. M. Blondel

Inspiration always comes when a person wants it, but it does not always disappear when he wants it. Charles Baudelaire

Art is always a metaphor for reality. Yu. Bondarev

Progress in art does not lie in expanding its boundaries, but in understanding them better. J. Marriage

The main thing in art is simplicity, grandeur and feeling, and the main thing in its form is restraint. B. Brecht

An artist cannot consider spontaneous success as the true criterion of the value of his work. B. Brecht

Great art serves great purposes. B. Brecht

Varnishing and decoration are the most terrible enemies not only of beauty, but also of political wisdom. B. Brecht

The perception of art can only lead to true pleasure when the art of perception exists. B. Brecht

Epochs without great goals do not have great art. B. Brecht

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

The artist's skill lies in the fact that he can depict any thing as significant. B. Brecht

Any great work is born only after a long period of quiet and in-depth reflection. W. Bagejot

Art has always been a wonderful mirror of the social order. R. Wagner

Art ceases to be art as soon as our consciousness begins to perceive it as art. R. Wagner

The creator of a work of art of the future is none other than the artist of the present. R. Wagner

Restraint should be in art what modesty is in love. K. Vatle

The artist makes the smallest things big. V. V. Veresaev

Only reality has the right to be implausible, art never. This is why art cannot merge with life. E. Verharn

The secret of art is that it corrects nature. F. Voltaire

No major work of art has ever been created without passionate partisanship. F. Wolf

Often one powerful artistic image puts into our soul more than what has been gained through many years of life. V. M. Garshin

Art is a language and therefore a highly social function. G. Hauptmann

Art is the conscience of humanity. K. Goebbel

Art became the first teacher of nations. G. Hegel

Genuine immortal works of art remain accessible and bring pleasure to all times and peoples. G. Hegel

In art, as in all human affairs, content is decisive. G. Hegel

Art has as its task to reveal truth in a sensual form. G. Hegel

The artist belongs to his time, he lives by its morals and habits, shares its views and ideas. G. Hegel

Art exists not for a small closed circle, not for a few very educated people, but for the whole people as a whole. G. Hegel

One great genius is molded by another, not so much through imitation as through communication. One diamond polishes another. G. Heine

If an expert doesn’t like your creation, this is not a good sign; if it has received the praise of an ignoramus, then it should be completely thrown away. K. Gellert

Much beauty exists in the world separately, and this is the task of our spirit: to discover connections and thereby create works of art. I. Goethe

Every artist has courage, without which talent is unthinkable. I. Goethe

A perfect work of art is a work of the human spirit and in this sense a work of nature. I. Goethe

Every artist contains a germ of daring, without which no talent is conceivable. And this sprout comes to life especially often when they want to limit, appease and force a gifted person to serve one-sided goals. I. Goethe

An amateur is to art as a hack is to craft. I. Goethe

Amateurs, having done everything in their power, usually tell themselves as an excuse that the work is not finished yet. Of course! It can never be finished, because it was started incorrectly. I. Goethe

Art remains art! Anyone who does not feel it deeply has no right to be called an artist. I. Goethe

The originality of expression is the alpha and omega of all art. I. Goethe

No one but the artist can contribute to art. Patrons encourage the artist. This is fair and good; but this does not always encourage art. I. Goethe

We must credit all other arts, and only to the Greek we remain eternally in debt. I. Goethe

In a work of art, the “what” interests people much more than the “how.” They can learn the first in parts, but they cannot grasp the second as a whole. I. Goethe

Inspiration is not a herring that can be pickled for many years. I. Goethe

Taste develops not from mediocre, but from the most perfect samples. I. Goethe

Art is a serious matter, especially serious when it deals with noble and sublime objects; the artist stands above art and above the object; over the first - because he uses it as a means, over the second - because he interprets it in his own way. I. Goethe

Technology combined with vulgarity is the most terrible enemy of art. I. Goethe

In every work of art, great or small, down to the smallest, everything comes down to a concept. I. Goethe

Life is short, art is eternal. Hippocrates

To create beauty, you yourself must be pure in soul. M. I. Glinka

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

Mastery comes on its own, despite us, with experience and with greater ease the more you think about something other than it. P. Gauguin

Fantasy, devoid of reason, gives birth to a monster; united with him, she is the mother of art and the source of its wonders. F. Goya

Art should ennoble people. M. Gorky

Art, first of all, must be clear and simple; its meaning is too great and important for “eccentricities” to take place in it. M. Gorky

At its core, art is a struggle for and against; There is no and cannot be indifferent art, because man is not a photographic apparatus, he does not “fix” reality, but either affirms it, or changes it, destroys it. M. Gorky

The artist is the sensitivity of his country, his class, his ear, eye and heart: he is the voice of his era. M. Gorky

Art sets as its goal to exaggerate the good so that it becomes even better, to exaggerate the bad - hostile to man, disfiguring him - so that it arouses disgust, ignites the will to destroy the shameful abominations of life created by the vulgar, greedy philistinism. M. Gorky

Artistic form is content that has become visible. I. Gofmiller

Whoever has become a master in art can forget about the rules without any harm to himself. A. Graf

Only a chosen one can create art; every person can love art. A. Grün

Rules and patterns kill genius and art. W. Gaslitt

Infinity lives in the poet and artist. V. Hugo

In our time, the horizon of art has expanded significantly: before the poet addressed the public, now - to the people. V. Hugo

The greatest triumph of an artist is if he makes those who are capable of it think and feel. E. Delacroix

Art has an enemy: its name is ignorance. B. Johnson

Nature is sometimes dry, but art should never be dry. D. Diderot

The task of art is not the accidents of everyday life, but their general idea, vigilantly guessed and correctly taken from the whole variety of homogeneous life phenomena. F. M. Dostoevsky

Only then does the feeling become purified when it comes into contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of the ideal. F. M. Dostoevsky

Art is honey, preserved by human souls and collected on the wings of hardship and labor. T. Dreiser

As long as art remains the beauty salon of our civilization, both art and civilization are in danger. D. Dewey

Harmony is what underlies all forms of art throughout human history. I. V. Zholtovsky

Art is proof that is confirmed by nature. George Sand

When file marks are visible on a piece of art, it means it has not been sanded enough. J. Joubert

A work of art is a corner of the universe seen through the prism of a certain temperament. E. Zola

An artist must be on par with the concepts of his time. A. A. Ivanov

Mastery does not make you an artist. P. Casals

Where there is no truth, there is no art. M. I. Kalinin

The highest purpose that art serves is to help people understand life more deeply and love it more. R. Kent

Art is science made clear. J. Cocteau

Art is valuable only if it is an expression of morality. J. Cocteau

If life is movement and struggle, then art, a true reflection of life, must represent the same movement, the struggle of opinions and ideas. V. G. Korolenko

Life is movement, struggle, and art is an organ of mental movement and struggle; This means that the goal is not simply to reflect it, but to reflect it by denying or blessing it. V. G. Korolenko

A political idea, like any other, has the right of citizenship in art. V. G. Korolenko

A true masterpiece must be repeatable so that the artist can make sure that he is not a plaything of his own nerves or chance. G. Courbet

In some areas, mediocrity is intolerable: such are poetry, music, painting, oratory. J. Labruyère

Only touching action in art is irresistible. He who knows how to touch can do everything. A. Lamartine

There is no creativity without dedication and without suffering. G. Lanson

Art belongs to the people. It must have its deepest roots in the very depths of the working masses. It must unite the feeling, thought and will of these masses, lift them up. It should awaken the artists in them and develop them. V. I. Lenin

A person has no taste if this taste is one-sided. True taste is an all-encompassing taste, to which beauty of all kinds is accessible. G. Lessing

When art is true to reality, when it draws strength from the surrounding life, the artist - at the behest of his own or social needs - will create true masterpieces. K. Liebknecht

In every work that shocks, there is poetry, and the greater the shock, the more poetry there is. A. V. Lunacharsky

It seems to May that it is very little to demand from art that it be a reflection only of reality. Then there will be enough photographers. Maxim Tank

The only sphere in which the divine is discernible is art, whatever its name. A. Malraux

Aesthetics are a product of hopeless times, of states that destroy hopes. G. Mann

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. T. Mann

The artist’s view of the phenomena of external and internal life differs from the ordinary: he is colder and more passionate. T. Mann

I will always sacrifice form if it comes down to a choice between form and content. The thought is the main thing. Mark Twain

If you want to enjoy art, then you must be an artistically educated person. K. Marx

An object of art - something similar happens with every other product - creates an audience that understands art and is able to enjoy beauty. K. Marx

Everyone in whom Raphael sits must have the opportunity to develop unhindered. K. Marx, F. Engels

Anyone who does not master the technique of some art, science or craft will never be able to create anything outstanding. N. V. Michurin

Only a work of art that is at once a symbol and an accurate expression of reality is outstanding. G. Maupassant

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

An artist is a synthesis of theorist and practitioner. Novalis

Art is about not being noticeable in a work of art. Ovid

The thirst for profit has not yet created a single artist, but has destroyed many. V. Alston

The service of the muses does not tolerate fuss. A. S. Pushkin

Art begins where chance ends. And yet, everything that chance brings into it enriches it. P. Reverdy

Always remain unsatisfied - that's it. the essence of creativity. J. Renard

The beautiful in art is always truthful, but the truthful is not always beautiful. E. Ritschel

The purpose of art is not a dream, but real life. R. Rolland

All the joys of life are in creativity. To create means to kill death. R. Rolland

Talk about art for art's sake is absurd. All art, as a product of people, bears a reflection of one or another human environment. Y. M. Sverdlov

True art is ahead of its time. Saint-Paul Roux

The arts are useful only if they develop the mind and do not distract it. Seneca the Younger

To reduce art to a question of “form” means to belittle and narrow it beyond all measure. C. Sainte-Beuve

There is a high point where art, nature and morality merge into one. C. Sainte-Beuve

Time is powerless over truly beautiful things in art. A. N. Serov

Art is like searching for diamonds. A hundred people search, but only one finds. But this one would never have found the diamond if a hundred people had not been looking nearby. V. Soloukhin

All art is a dialogue between the artist and the public. V. Soloukhin

If science is the memory of the mind, then art is the memory of the senses. V. Soloukhin

True art does not tolerate lies.