Memorable Art Appreciation Quotes

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
Jerzy Kosinski
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
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"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
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding."
Marc Chagall
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Cooley
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Gauguin
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"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
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
Piet Mondrian
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Saul Bellow
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Paul Cezanne
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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
Walt Whitman
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
Gustav Klimt
"Every good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock
"You don't take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams

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