Memorable Art Quotes

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"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
"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
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Art is the most powerful means of communication in the world."
John F. Kennedy
"Art is the universal language of mankind."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Art is the language of the soul."
Unknown
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Dale Carnegie
"Art is the triumph over chaos."
John Cheever
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
Theodore Dreiser
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
Gustav Klimt
"A picture is a poem without words."
Horace
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
Emile Zola
"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is the daughter of freedom."
Friedrich Schiller
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
Amy Lowell
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"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeill Whistler
"The principles of true art are not to portray, but to evoke."
Jerzy Kosinski
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
Jean-Luc Godard
"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing."
Marc Chagall
"Art is the pleasure of a spirit that realizes beauty."
Unknown
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."
Eric Gill
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Plutarch
"The best artist has no conscious will; he/she just has to do art."
Adreon Henry
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"Art is saving my life many times."
Maria Sibylla Merian
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the journey of a free soul."
Alev Oguz
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
Banksy
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."
Theodore Dreiser
"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
Paul Cezanne
"Art is the universal language of the soul."
Marina Abramovic
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth."
Michelangelo
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"Art is the proper task of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"The painter tries to master color; the poet, rhythm; the musician, harmony; but we know that art, true art, is beyond these limitations."
Henri Matisse
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
Unknown
"To create is to live twice."
Albert Camus
"Art is the most beautiful way of expressing the inexpressible."
Unknown
"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol
"The chief function of color should be to serve as the means of exerting a peculiar influence on the eye."
Henri Matisse
"Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of work, of thought, and of love."
Jose Marti
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them."
Anton Chekhov
"Art is the unlikeliest of all positive forces."
Robert Henri
"A work of art is a scream of freedom."
Christo
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief."
Jim Morrison
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Vincent Van Gogh
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself."
Michelangelo
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
Vincent van Gogh
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Every creation is a gift to the future."
Maya Angelou
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
"The painter tries to master color, and he follows in the footsteps of nature."
Henri Matisse
"The more I paint, the more I like everything."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Frederick R. Barnard
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
Rene Magritte
"Art is a way of recognizing oneself."
Robert Henri
"An artist is not a special kind of person; every person is a special kind of artist."
Harvey D. Ross
"Good artists copy; great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the most beautiful form of hope."
Gustav Mahler
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
Bob Ross
"The painter tries to master color, while the musician attempts to master sound. In the end, only the artist knows how to master silence."
Unknown
"Art is the most powerful means of communication, and it can be used as a weapon against ignorance."
Barbara Kruger
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain"
Michelangelo
"Art must be an integral part of our lives."
Wassily Kandinsky
"A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle."
Robert Motherwell
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"The more I paint, the more I want to paint."
Renoir
"What art offers is real."
Matisse
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
Paul Klee
"Every creation of the mind is an artwork."
Hannah Arendt
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
Bobby McFerrin
"Art is a journey into a world that one does not yet know."
Justin Townes Earle
"Every artist is a storyteller."
William Kentridge
"Art is the most effective mode of communications."
Mark Rothko
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
George Bernard Shaw
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