Memorable Famous Quotes About Art

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"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda Coomaraswamy
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the creator and the viewers."
Anna Deavere Smith
"The painting is a poetic description of the relationship between things and how they behave."
Lawren Harris
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not have a mass weight, but a sense of beauty."
Michelangelo
"The painter tries to master the paint, the musician tries to master the music, and the artist, being the master, is an artist."
Lao Tzu
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Every artist must be prepared to revisit the wounds of their own past."
Maya Angelou
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."
Vincent van Gogh
"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."
Salvador Dalí
"The vast majority of my creative thoughts come to me while I am working."
Claude Monet
"Art is the highest form of hope."
Gerhard Richter
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"The painter tries to master color and form, and the poet is consumed with language and meaning."
Robert Penn Warren
"Art is the most beautiful of dreams."
Denis Diderot
"Art shakes us out of our complacency and reminds us that life has a deeper meaning."
Robert Hughes
"Art is a lie that reveals the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the creator."
Hans Hofmann
"Every artist is a thief."
Paul Gauguin
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"To be an artist is to be in a constant state of doubt."
Henri Matisse
"To create one’s own world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol
"Every good artist paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock
"Art is the most effective mode of communicative activity between man and man."
Khalil Gibran
"An artist is not a special kind of person; every person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda Coomaraswamy
"Art is the expression of the most profound thoughts in the simplest way."
Albert Einstein
"The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
Vincent van Gogh
"The painter tries to master color and light, but it is in the darkness of the canvas that he discovers himself."
Alfred de Musset
"A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the creator and the perceptions of its observers."
E. H. Gombrich
"Art is the expression of the human condition."
Henri Matisse
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
César A. Cruz
"The great artist is the simplifier."
Vincent van Gogh
"Art is the most beautiful and profound and transcendent of human activities, power, and traditions."
Leonard Cohen
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"Art should be an integral part of your life."
Anne-Marie de Bruijn
"Every canvas is a journey all its own."
Helen Frankenthaler
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not have a stone in it; it lies within the vision of the beholder."
Michelangelo
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
Alberto Giacometti
"You don’t take a photograph, you make it."
Ansel Adams
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike
"The painter tries to master color, the poet, language, and a musician gives form to sound."
Victor Hugo
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."
Eric Gill
"Art should be a part of your life, not an escape from life."
Philip James Bailey
"The best artist has no consciousness of their art."
Tuey Brown
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James Whistler
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the soul, is simplicity."
Walt Whitman
"Art will remain; it is in the soul. All men have it."
Theodore Dreiser
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."
Theodore Dreiser
"There is no use in trying to be normal; you have to be yourself."
Renee Zellweger
"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemingway
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard
"Art is a constant effort to see things from a new perspective."
Berthe Morisot
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The painter tries to master color; the composer tries to master sound."
Károly Kertbeny
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain."
Michelangelo
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"Every artist is a storyteller."
Martha Graham
"An artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"Art must be an integral part of the mythic process of long-term cultural renewal."
Joseph Campbell
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."
Artur Schopenhauer
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
Vincent Van Gogh
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
Robert Rauschenberg
"The aim of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate; it is life, intensified, and it is the artist’s task to see it in all its complexity."
Robert Motherwell
"Think of an artist as a person who creates beauty."
Hilda Annersley
"Surrealism is about the search for a reality that is beyond our limited social, psychological and physical experience."
André Breton
"Art is the proper task of life."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the essence of life."
Maya Angelou
"Art is the only way to run away from life without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
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