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
12. 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
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. The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. - Abraham
20. True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. - Albert Einstein
21. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
23. 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
24. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw
25. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. - Walt
26. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman
27. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Khalil Gibran
28. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. - Albert Camus
29. 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
30. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
31. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. - William Butler Yeats
32. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol
33. Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. - Arthur Schopenhauer
34. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon
35. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Michelangelo
36. The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. - D. H. Lawrence
37. The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie
38. 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
39. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - William Wordsworth
40. Life is short, the art long. - Hippocrates
41. A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope
42. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
43. Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali
44. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy
45. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? - Ludwig van
46. An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana
47. An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. - Charles
48. A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. - Hedy
49. Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. - Marcel Proust
50. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
51. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin
52. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams
53. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. - W. Somerset Maugham
54. Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. - Ambrose Bierce
55. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
56. I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. - Henri Matisse
57. In art as in love, instinct is enough. - Anatole France
58. Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. - Don Miguel Ruiz
59. The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. - Ellen Key
60. Of all lies, art is the least untrue. - Gustave Flaubert
61. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Gustave Flaubert
62. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. - Jonathan Swift
63. My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. - J. Paul Getty
64. 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
65. The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. - Henry Miller
66. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
67. I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. - William Morris
68. 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
69. You begin with the possibilities of the material. - Robert Rauschenberg
70. I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. - Marcel Duchamp
71. The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. - David Hockney
72. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock
73. If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. - Honore de Balzac
74. The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. - Carl
75. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. - Nathaniel
76. A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. - Gertrude Stein
77. An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures. - Wassily Kandinsky
78. The history of art is the history of revivals. - Samuel Butler
79. Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. - Henry Kissinger
80. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
81. 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
82. Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt
83. Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim
84. A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. - Charles Dudley Warner
85. 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
86. The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. - Flannery O'Connor
87. 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
88. Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. - Arthur Erickson
89. That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. - Corita Kent
90. I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. - Roy Lichtenstein
91. Art is the most beautiful of all lies. - Claude Debussy
92. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. - George Sand
93. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. - Edward Hopper
94. Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. - Charles Eames
95. Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul
96. 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
97. My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. - Tadao Ando
98. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens
99. 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
100. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
101. Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. - Alfred Sisley
102. That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. - James Taylor
103. A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. - Eugene Ionesco
104. I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. - Jodie Foster
105. Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. - Giotto di Bondone
106. An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. - Paul Valery
107. The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. - Logan Pearsall Smith
108. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas
109. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike
110. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. - Gwendolyn Brooks
111. Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall
112. The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. - Novalis
113. Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - Miguel de Unamuno
114. There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. - Constantin Brancusi
115. A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. - Vladimir
116. Through a painting we can see the whole world. - Hans Hofmann
117. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. - Donald Judd
118. When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. - Robert Mapplethorpe
119. Paint the essential character of things. - Camille Pissarro
120. Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. - Igor Stravinsky 121. The perfection of art is to conceal art. - Quintilian
122. The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. - Paul Klee
123. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. - Alexander
124. It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. - Wilson Mizner
125. Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski
126. Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. - Iris Murdoch
127. Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. - Jean Cocteau
128. The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. - John James Audubon
129. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. - Dorothea Lange
130. Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. - Rene Magritte
131. An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. - Maurice
132. Painting and writing are solitary arts. - Conrad Hall
133. I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. - Francis Ford Coppola
134. I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. - Le Corbusier
135. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. - Thomas Wolfe
136. Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. - Robert Smithson
137. I cry out for order and find it only in art. - Helen Hayes
138. Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. - Anish Kapoor
139. I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet
140. To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann
141. Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. - Peter De Vries
142. One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. - Balthus
143. One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. - Andrew Wyeth
144. My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. - Clara Schumann
145. In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. - Damien Hirst
146. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. - Max Eastman
147. Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views. - Mary Schmich
148. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
149. If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. - Arne Jacobsen
150. Art is pattern informed by sensibility. - Herbert Read
151. What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. - John
152. Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler
153. The best artists know what to leave out. - Charles de Lint
154. Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. - Andre Malraux
155. It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. - Robert Motherwell
156. Wherever art appears, life disappears. - Robert Motherwell
157. Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher
158. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Auguste Rodin
159. I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. - Diane Arbus
160. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. - Kary Mullis
161. To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford
162. An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley
163. I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. - Henry Ossawa Tanner
164. Painting is by nature a luminous language. - Robert Delaunay
165. An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James Whistler
166. I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. - Barbara Hepworth
167. Trying to force creativity is never good. - Sarah McLachlan
168. Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Ciardi
169. Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. - Elizabeth Bowen
170. Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. - Ad Reinhardt
171. It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. - Alfred Eisenstaedt
172. I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. - Ernst Fischer
173. Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. - Jean Rostand
174. I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages. - John Zorn
175. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. - Joan Miro
176. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. - Jerzy Kosinski
177. I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. - Peter
178. The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. - William Morris Hunt
179. I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. - Robert Indiana
180. If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. - Grandma Moses
181. Art must take reality by surprise. - Francoise Sagan
182. To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. - Philip Guston
183. Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. - Robert Quillen
184. Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. - Pierre Bonnard
185. Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese
186. The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. - Eugene Delacroix
187. You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. - John Singer Sargent
188. Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. - Georges Braque
189. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser
190. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. - Gian Carlo
191. Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. - Egon Schiele
192. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. - Joshua Reynolds
193. Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. - James Huneker
194. What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart. - Raoul Dufy
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