1. A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. - Leonardo da Vinci 

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

3. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

4. Personality is everything in art and poetry. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

5. If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh 

6. A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo 

7. Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali 

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

9. I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. - Jackie Kennedy 

10. There is nothing new in art except talent. - Anton Chekhov 

11. The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. - Robert Rauschenberg 1

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

13. To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. - Henri Cartier-Bresson 

14. My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. - Jim Dine 

15. 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. - Paul Strand 

16. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill 

17. This world is but a canvas to our imagination. - Henry David Thoreau 

18. A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde 

19. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde 

20. It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde 

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

22. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. - Albert Einstein 

23. True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. - Albert Einstein 

24. Pictures must not be too picturesque. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

25. Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

26. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

27. We have art in order not to die of the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

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

29. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy 

30. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw 

31. The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

32. In art the best is good enough. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

33. It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

34. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. - Walt Disney 

35. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman 

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

37. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus

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

39. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci 

40. 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. - Pablo Picasso 

41. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso 

42. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso 

43. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso 

44. Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. - Harry S Truman 

45. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. - William Butler Yeats 

46. A picture is worth a thousand words. - Unknown 

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

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

49. Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. - Arthur Schopenhauer 

50. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon 

51. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon 

52. All art is but imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

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

54. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo 

55. The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. - Michelangelo 

56. The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. - D. H. Lawrence 

57. The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie 

58. An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. - Langston Hughes 

59. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - William Wordsworth 

60. Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. - Frank Lloyd Wright 

61. Life is short, the art long. - Hippocrates 

62. A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope 

63. So vast is art, so narrow human wit. - Alexander Pope 

64. It's clever, but is it Art? - Rudyard Kipling 

65. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton 

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

67. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. - Salvador Dali 

68. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy 

69. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. - Leo Tolstoy 

70. Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard 

71. 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. - Elbert Hubbard 

72. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? - Ludwig van Beethoven 

73. An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana 

74. Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. - Claude Monet 

75. An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski 

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

77. Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. - Marcel Proust 

78. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher 

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

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

81. 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. - Fran Lebowitz 

82. You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams 

83. There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams 

84. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams 

85. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. - W. Somerset Maugham 

86. The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. - W. Somerset Maugham 

87. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. - Ambrose Bierce 

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

89. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

90. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

91. 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. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

92. 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. - Henri Matisse 

93. I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. - Henri Matisse 

94. Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse 

95. Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. - Henri Matisse 

96. With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. - Henri Matisse 

97. In art as in love, instinct is enough. - Anatole France 

98. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa 

99. Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. - Don Miguel Ruiz 

100. A picture is a poem without words. - Horace