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