91 quotes
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space I consider sculpture”
— Isamu Noguchi
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”
— Vincent van Gogh
“There is no must in art because art is free”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
— Claude Monet
“Art is the highest form of hope”
— Gerhard Richter
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
— Aristotle
“Art is a guarantee of sanity”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Art has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a bus”
— David Hockney
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
— Michelangelo
“Art is what you can get away with”
— Andy Warhol
“An artist should not lie to himself or others an artist should not steal ideas from other artists an artist should not compromise for themselves or in regards to the art market”
— Marina Abramovic
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
— Thomas Browne
“Everything is art everything is politics”
— Ai Weiwei
“Art does not show people what to do yet engaging with art asks us to think about why things are as they are”
— Olafur Eliasson
“Life doesnt last art doesnt last it doesnt matter”
— Eva Hesse
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticism”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
— Epicurus
“Everyone is an artist in their own way”
— Joseph Beuys
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
— Auguste Rodin
“I dont think about art when I work I try to think about life”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escape”
— bell hooks
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
— Molière
“Art is not what you see but what you make others see”
— Degas
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
— Christo
“A line is a dot that went for a walk”
— Paul Klee
“The purpose of art and creativity is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
— James Baldwin
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
— Unknown
“The work of art is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.”
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
— Piet Mondrian
“Art is for everybody not just the chosen few”
— Keith Haring
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonder”
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“Art is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the real”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The job of the artist and creative person is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
— Arthur Miller
“Life is art art is life I never separate it”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“All art is autobiographical the pearl is the oysters autobiography”
— Federico Fellini
“The position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channel”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
“Art is not about understanding or knowledge or explanation but of experience”
— Ruth Asawa
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”
— Banksy
“I am for an art that is political erotical and mystical”
— Claes Oldenburg
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being”
— Robert Henri
“Mystery is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“Architecture is frozen music.”
— Schelling
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“Art cannot be modern art is primordially eternal”
— Egon Schiele
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“I paint flowers so they will not die”
— Frida Kahlo
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“The practice of compassion requires discipline and concentration it is an art that demands mastery”
— Erich Fromm
“To catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possible”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.”
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
— Jean Cocteau
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“There is no must in art because art is free and creativity cannot be constrained.”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time and faith does the same”
— Thomas Merton
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers”
“Art is born from life and returns to life”
— Bill Viola
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words for”
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution”
— Paul Gauguin
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
“Art is a guarantee of sanity in a chaotic world”
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
— Theodore Dreiser
“Art is a kind of illness”
— Giacomo Puccini
“Take your broken heart make it into art”
— Meryl Streep
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”
“Less is more”
— Robert Browning
“Great art picks up where nature ends”
— Marc Chagall
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