1. The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. - Ellen Key
2. When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. - Ellen Key
4. Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. - Marshall McLuhan
5. All good art is an indiscretion. - Tennessee Williams
6. Of all lies, art is the least untrue. - Gustave Flaubert
7. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Gustave Flaubert
8. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide
3. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan
9. Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been
created without great labor. - Andre Gide
10. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift
11. My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. - J. Paul Getty
12. The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. - J.
Paul Getty
13. All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavor, so even when you're using charcoal on a
wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. - George Lucas
14. 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. - Paul Cezanne
15. With an apple I will astonish Paris. - Paul Cezanne
16. Art is a harmony parallel with nature. - Paul Cezanne
17. The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. - Henry Miller
18. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
19. I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. - William Morris
20. If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. - William Morris
21. 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. - Anais Nin
22. You begin with the possibilities of the material. - Robert Rauschenberg
23. An empty canvas is full. - Robert Rauschenberg
24. I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
25. I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. - Marcel Duchamp
26. The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. - David Hockney
27. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. - David Hockney
28. What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. - David Hockney
29. I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of
the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one
picture. - David Hockney
30. Every good painter paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
31. My painting does not come from the easel. - Jackson Pollock
32. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. -
Jackson Pollock
33. The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. -
Jackson Pollock
34. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
35. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. - Honore de Balzac
36. The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. - Carl
Rogers
37. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. - Nathaniel
Hawthorne
38. A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. - Gertrude Stein
39. An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. - Wassily Kandinsky
40. The history of art is the history of revivals. - Samuel Butler
41. Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. - Henry Kissinger
42. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
43. 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. - Barbra Streisand
44. Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt
45. Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim
46. A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. - Charles Dudley Warner
47. All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Federico Fellini
48. Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich
Schiller
49. Art is the daughter of freedom. - Friedrich Schiller
50. 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. - Louis Kahn
51. The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. - Flannery O'Connor
52. 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. -
E. M. Forster
53. 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. - E. M. Forster
54. Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. - Arthur Erickson
55. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. - Arthur Erickson
56. That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. - Corita Kent
57. I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. - Roy Lichtenstein
58. Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. - Roy Lichtenstein
59. Art is the most beautiful of all lies. - Claude Debussy
60. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. - George Sand
61. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. - Edward Hopper
62. Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. - Charles Eames
63. Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin
64. 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. - Paul Gauguin
65. Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul
Gauguin
66. All great art is born of the metropolis. - Ezra Pound
67. 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. - Cyril Connolly
68. Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. - Theodor W. Adorno
69. The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. - Theodor W. Adorno
70. An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. - J.
D. Salinger
71. My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. - Tadao Ando
72. 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. - Henry Moore
73. A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. - Henry
Moore
74. Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. -
Octavio Paz
75. Great artists suffer for the people. - Marvin Gaye
76. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens
77. Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own
soul. - Emily Carr
78. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
79. Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. - Alfred Sisley
80. That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. - James Taylor
81. A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. - Eugene Ionesco
82. I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. - Jodie Foster
83. Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. - Giotto di Bondone
84. An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. - Paul Valery
85. The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. - Logan Pearsall Smith
86. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas
87. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike
88. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. - Gwendolyn Brooks
89. When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our
minds there is awareness of perfection. - Agnes Martin
90. Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. - Agnes Martin
91. My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. - Agnes Martin
92. When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or
my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If
there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. - Marc Chagall
93. Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall
94. The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. - Novalis
95. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - Miguel de Unamuno
96. There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. - Constantin Brancusi
97. A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir
Nabokov
98. Through a painting we can see the whole world. - Hans Hofmann
99. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. - Donald Judd
100. When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. - Robert Mapplethorpe
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