William Hazlitt Quotes

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

I believe in art.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Land really is the best art.

I have so much love for art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

There are lots of artists I respect and admire.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.