Art Quotes

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Art quotes by Hedy Lamarr

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Art quotes by George Edward Moore

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Art quotes by Albert Camus

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

Art quotes by Corri Alius

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Art quotes by Michelangelo

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Art quotes by Albert Camus

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Art quotes by Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

Art quotes by Robert Brault

A picture is a poem without words.

Art quotes by Horace

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Art quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more.

Art quotes by Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Art quotes by Henry Moore

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Art quotes by Unknown

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Art quotes by Gertrude Stein

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art quotes by Al Capp

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art quotes by Albert Camus

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Art quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Art quotes by Marshall McLuhan

All art is an imitation of nature.

Art quotes by Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

All art is but imitation of nature.

Art quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All art requires courage.

Art quotes by Anne Tucker

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Art quotes by John Ruskin

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

Art quotes by Glenn Close

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Art quotes by Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Art quotes by M. C. Richards

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb - when you look at it, it's looking back at you.

Art quotes by Uniek Swain

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Art quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Art quotes by Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art quotes by George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Art quotes by Henry Miller

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Art quotes by Edgard Varese

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art quotes by Andy Warhol

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Art quotes by Andy Warhol

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

Art quotes by Dena Groquet

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Art quotes by Paul Valery

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Art quotes by James McNeill Whistler

An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.

Art quotes by Holden Rinehart

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Art quotes by Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Art quotes by Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Art quotes by Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Art quotes by Walter Gropius

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art quotes by Andre Gide

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art disturbs, science reassures.

Art quotes by Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art quotes by Thomas Merton (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

Art quotes by David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Art quotes by Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Art quotes by Ben Jonson

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Art quotes by Robert Delaunay

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

Art quotes by Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Art quotes by Unknown

Art is a kind of illness.

Art quotes by Giacomo Puccini

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Art quotes by Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Art quotes by Kahlil Gibran

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Art quotes by Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Art quotes by Octavio Paz

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Art quotes by Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Art quotes by Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Art quotes by Jean Paul Richter

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art quotes by Lincoln Steffens

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art quotes by Theodor Adorno

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art quotes by Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Art quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art.

Art quotes by James Bailey

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art quotes by W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art quotes by Robert Motherwell

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art quotes by Leonardo da Vinci (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art quotes by John Ruskin

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art quotes by Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Art quotes by Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Art quotes by Harry S. Truman

Art is pictures straight from the heart.

Art quotes by Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is science made clear.

Art quotes by Wilson Mizner

Art is spirituality in drag.

Art quotes by Jennifer Yane

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Art quotes by Kary Mullis

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Art quotes by Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art quotes by Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art quotes by Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Art quotes by Twyla Tharp

Art is the proper task of life.

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

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

Art quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Art quotes by Theodore Dreiser , Life, Art, and America, 1917

Art is the struggle to understand.

Art quotes by Audrey Foris

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art quotes by John Cheever

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Art quotes by Claudia Lady Bird Johnson (American born Ancient Scythian First Lady (wife of Lyndon B. Johnson), b.1912)

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

Art quotes by Michael Vitale

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.

Art quotes by Star Richés

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.

Art quotes by Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page.

Art quotes by Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art isn’t a handicraft, it is a transmission of feeling, the artist has experienced.

Art quotes by Unknown

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

Art quotes by Aaron Howard

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Art quotes by Jean Cocteau

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art quotes by Dante Alighieri, Inferno

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Art quotes by Stephen Sondheim

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Art quotes by Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Art quotes by Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. The rest of us, who aren't artists, must color things in the way they really are, or people might think we are stupid.

Art quotes by Jules Feiffer

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art quotes by Anish Kapoor

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Art quotes by Gustave Flaubert

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Art quotes by John Lubbock

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art quotes by Jean Rostand

Beauty is altogether in the eyes of the beholder.

Art quotes by Unknown

Beauty is its own excuse for being.

Art quotes by Unknown

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Art quotes by Unknown

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Art quotes by The New Yorker

By the work one knows the workman.

Art quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Art quotes by Unknown

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Art quotes by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Art quotes by Scott Adams , 'The Dilbert Principle'

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Art quotes by Michele Shea

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Art quotes by Tom Wolfe

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Art quotes by Unknown

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Art quotes by Salvador Dali

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

Art quotes by William Baziotes

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Art quotes by Carroll O'Connor

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art quotes by Henry Ward Beecher(1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Art quotes by Henry Ellis

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Art quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art quotes by Jackson Pollock

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Art quotes by Edward Steichen

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Art quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Art quotes by Louis Kahn

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Art quotes by John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)

Everything ends in songs.

Art quotes by Unknown

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Art quotes by Unknown

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

Art quotes by Unknown

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Art quotes by Francis Bacon

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art quotes by John Ruskin

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Art quotes by Georges Rouault

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

Art quotes by William McElcheran

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there Is wasting his time.

Art quotes by Unknown

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

Grammar stops at love, and at art.

Art quotes by Valentine Sterling

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Art quotes by George Jean Nathan, House of Satan

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art quotes by Marc Chagall

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Art quotes by Bette Midler

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Art quotes by Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

Art quotes by Claes Oldenburg

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Art quotes by Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Art quotes by Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Art quotes by Auguste Rodin

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Art quotes by Helen Hayes

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Art quotes by Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Art quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Art quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

Art quotes by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Art quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Art quotes by Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006

I know you by heart - You're so much a part of me I know you by heart - Can't you see It's no wonder I can love you the way that I do I can finish any sentence you start I know you by heart.

Art quotes by Bette Midler

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Art quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Art quotes by Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Art quotes by W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Art quotes by Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

I paint with shapes.

Art quotes by Alexander Calder

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Art quotes by Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Art quotes by Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Art quotes by Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art quotes by Paul Gauguin (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Art quotes by Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn commentary, 03-31-05

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Art quotes by Jodie Foster

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Art quotes by Andy Warhol

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Art quotes by Barbra Streisand

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.

Art quotes by Robin Tyler

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

Art quotes by Adeline Cullen Ray

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

Art quotes by Honore de Balzac

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Art quotes by Anais Nin

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art quotes by Vincent Van Gogh

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Art quotes by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Art quotes by Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Art quotes by Lionel Trilling

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Art quotes by Anatole France

In art the best is good enough.

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

Art quotes by Unknown

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Art quotes by Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

Art quotes by Kojiro Tomita

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Art quotes by Henry Moore

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Art quotes by Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Art quotes by Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.

Art quotes by Unknown

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

It takes one eye opened to meet your true love, but both eyes closed to keep them.

Art quotes by Unknown

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Art quotes by Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994

Learn to write well or not to write at all.

Art quotes by Unknown

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Art quotes by Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

Art quotes by Unknown

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Art quotes by Stella Adler

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art quotes by Woody Allen (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film Director, b.1935)

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Art quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Art quotes by W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Art quotes by Jean Cocteau

Love is pulling together against all odds.

Art quotes by Unknown

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.

Art quotes by Mae West (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art

Art quotes by Konstantin Stanislavsky (Russian Actor He co-founder the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898; develped the method theory of acting in which the actor identifies with the role., 1863-1938)

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Art quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

Art quotes by Ernst Levy

Men of stainless character will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Art quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Art quotes by John Anthony Ciardi

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Art quotes by Franz Liszt

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Art quotes by Tadao Ando

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Art quotes by Clara Schumann

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Art quotes by Paul Getty

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

My painting does not come from the easel.

Art quotes by Jackson Pollock

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Art quotes by Unknown

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Art quotes by Theodore Bikel

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Art quotes by Ansel Adams

O, how much simpler things would be
If eyes could paint or brush could see.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Art quotes by Gustave Flaubert

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Art quotes by Mark Stevens

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Only the artist, or the free scholar, carries his happiness with him.

Art quotes by Unknown

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

Art quotes by Joan Rivers

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

Art quotes by George Tooker

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Art quotes by Salvador Dali

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

Art quotes by Edgar Degas

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is silent poetry.

Art quotes by Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Art quotes by Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art quotes by Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Art quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Art quotes by Edward Steichen

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Art quotes by Dorothea Lange

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Art quotes by Nickolas Muray

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Art quotes by William Wordsworth

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the record of the best and the happiest moments of the happiest and the best minds.

Art quotes by Unknown

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.

Art quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Art quotes by Arthur Erickson

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

Art quotes by Martin H. Fischer

Repetition is the death of art.

Art quotes by Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art quotes by William Hazlitt

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art quotes by Alexander Pope

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Art quotes by Brenda Ueland

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Art quotes by Francis Bacon

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Art quotes by Gloria Naylor (African-American novelist and educator, 1950)

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

Art quotes by Edmond & Jules de Goncourt

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Art quotes by Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Art quotes by James Taylor

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

Art quotes by Aristotle

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Art quotes by William Faulkner

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Art quotes by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Art quotes by Novalis

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

Art quotes by Alfred Tonnelle

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

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.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist

Art quotes by Eric Gill

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Art quotes by Emile Zola (French Novelist, Critic and Activist. 1840-1902)

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Art quotes by Henry Miller

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.

Art quotes by Cyril Connolly

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

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

Art quotes by Eugene Delacroix

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art quotes by Paul Strand

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Art quotes by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Art quotes by Paul Cezanne

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Art quotes by Plato

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Art quotes by Kenneth Tynan

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Art quotes by Louis I Kahn

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.

Art quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Art quotes by Dale Carnegie

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

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

Art quotes by Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Art quotes by Abraham Lincoln

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Art quotes by Samuel Butler

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Art quotes by Paul Gauguin

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Art quotes by David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art quotes by David Hockney

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Art quotes by Ellen Key

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Art quotes by Jenny Holzer

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Art quotes by Ansel Adams

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Art quotes by William Shakespeare

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Art quotes by Elie Wiesel (Romanian born American Writer. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. b.1928)

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Art quotes by Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Art quotes by Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Art quotes by Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Art quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Art quotes by Jerzy Kosinski

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Art quotes by T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Art quotes by James Russell Lowell

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Art quotes by Gustav Mahler

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Art quotes by Elbert Hubbard

The secret of life is in art.

Art quotes by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Art quotes by Theodor Adorno

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Art quotes by André Malraux

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art quotes by Michelangelo

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Art quotes by Carl Rogers

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Art quotes by Henry Miller

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Art quotes by Elia Kazan

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Art quotes by Ansel Adams

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Art quotes by Robert Brault

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Art quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no must in art because art is free

Art quotes by Wassily Kandinsky

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Art quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Art quotes by Ansel Adams

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Art quotes by Jean Anouilh

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Art quotes by Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul

Art quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Art quotes by Henry David Thoreau

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Art quotes by Alexander Calder

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the melody if the ignorance.

Art quotes by Unknown

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Art quotes by Joseph Chilton Pearce

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Art quotes by E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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

Art quotes by Henri Cartier-Bresson

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Art quotes by Robert Schumann

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Art quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Art quotes by Michelangelo

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Art quotes by Albert Einstein

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Art quotes by Sarah McLachlan

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Art quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Art quotes by Jonathan Swift

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Art quotes by Arthur Erickson

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art quotes by Pablo Picasso

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Art quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Art quotes by John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art quotes by John Updike

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Art quotes by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Art quotes by Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Art quotes by Unknown

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Art quotes by W. H. Auden

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Art quotes by Willa Cather

What we play is life.

Art quotes by Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Art quotes by Paul Cezanne

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Art quotes by Jim Hodges

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Art quotes by Robert Mapplethorpe

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"

Art quotes by Howard Ikemoto

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.

Art quotes by Dena Groquet

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Art quotes by Edward Steichen

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Art quotes by Odilon Redon

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Art quotes by Piero Milani

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Art quotes by Marie Laurencin

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art quotes by George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

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

Art quotes by Albert Camus

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Art quotes by Winston Churchill

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.

Art quotes by Peter C. Wilson

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Art quotes by E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art quotes by Ansel Adams

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Art quotes by William Blake

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Art quotes by Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994