1. Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. - Pierre Bonnard
2. A painting that is well composed is half finished. - Pierre Bonnard
3. Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese
4. The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. - Eugene Delacroix
5. You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. - John Singer Sargent
6. Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. - Georges Braque
7. Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. - Georges Braque
8. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque
9. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser
10. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. - Gian Carlo Menotti
11. Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. - Egon Schiele
12. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. - Joshua Reynolds
13. Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. - James Huneker
14. My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. - Raoul Dufy
15. What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. - Raoul Dufy
16. Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. - Malcolm de Chazal
17. The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. - Elia Kazan
18. Art is the triumph over chaos. - John Cheever
19. Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. - Alfred de Vigny
20. Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life? - Alfred de Vigny
21. Insight is the first condition of Art. - George Henry Lewes
22. In art, the obvious is a sin. - Edward Dmytryk
23. I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. - Jay Kay
24. Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. - Amy Lowell
25. An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. - Willem de Kooning
26. Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling
27. What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. - Lionel Trilling
28. Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. - Edward Steichen
29. When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. - Edward Steichen
30. Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. - Edward Steichen
31. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp
32. A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Edward Moore
33. The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. - Louis Dudek
34. Art is anything people do with distinction. - Louis Dudek
35. Layer by layer art strips life bare. - Robert Musil
36. No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. - Theodore Bikel
37. Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. - Kiki Smith
38. Even a true artist does not always produce art. - Carroll O'Connor
39. When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. - Sol LeWitt
40. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. - Jim Hodges
41. The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon
42. The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. - Sun Tzu
43. It is hard to separate the art from the artist. - Juice Wrld
44. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde
45. Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche
46. Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden
47. Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. - Paul Rand
48. I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. - Malcolm Mclaren
49. Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. - Oscar Wilde
50. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
51. Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. - Maya Angelou
52. Art raises its head where creeds relax. - Friedrich Nietzsche
53. 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. - Friedrich Nietzsche
54. It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle
55. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
56. You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw
57. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis
58. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - C. S. Lewis
59. 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. - Albert Camus
60. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho
61. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
62. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. - Ray Bradbury
63. Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. - Rainer Maria Rilke
64. Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. - Salvador Dali
65. I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely. - David Bowie
66. The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysses S. Grant
67. I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. - Jean-Michel Basquiat
68. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. - Kurt Vonnegut
69. Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things. - Virgil Abloh
70. The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well. - Anton Chekhov
71. In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. - Patti Smith
72. The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru
73. Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. - Frank Ocean
74. When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. - Denis Diderot
75. At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it. - Millie Bobby Brown
76. I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. - Lorraine Hansberry
77. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. - Roy Lichtenstein
78. The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art. - Takashi Murakami
79. When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'super flat.' - Takashi Murakami
80. Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. - Barbara Kruger
81. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
82. If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? - Ai Weiwei
83. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. - Jean Anouilh
84. The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
85. A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience. - Abbas Kiarostami
86. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life! - Jessye Norman
87. Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things. - Barry Jenkins
88. The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. - Walter Benjamin
89. I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman. - Camille Claudel
90. In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. - Frank Capra
91. Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does. - Walter Murch
92. I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. - Yves Tanguy
93. You really can't bring about anything new with art. - Martin Kippenberger
94. We have lost the art of sharing and caring. - Hun Sen
95. Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. - Confucius
96. The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing. - Benjamin Franklin
97. If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. - Oscar Wilde
98. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde
99. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde
100. What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde
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