Romantic Art Quotes

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

It's with my brush that I make love.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.