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