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