Art Quotes

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Honore de Balzac

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Honore de Balzac

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Ha-Joon Chang

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Harold Coffin

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

Helena Bonham Carter

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.

Hussein Chalayan

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

Hal David

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

Humphry Davy

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

Hasan M. Elahi

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

Harvey Fierstein

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Helen Frankenthaler

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

Henry Flynt

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Howard Finster