Memorable Quotes About Art

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"The painter tries to master color, the musician tries to master sound, and the writer, words."
Richard Kearney
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his picture."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art is the most beautiful of lies; a lie that reveals the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain within itself, and it must be set free."
Michelangelo
"Art should be an integral part of our everyday lives."
Alfredo Jaar
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Émile Zola
"The more I paint, the more I find myself."
Georgia O'Keeffe
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"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
Paul Klee
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"The greatest artist is not necessarily the one who is the most talented, but the one who works hardest."
Steve Jobs
"An artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda Coomaraswamy
"Every artist has to decide how far he will go in order to gain a measure of success."
Louise Bourgeois
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the creator."
Hans Hofmann
"The creative adult is the child who survived."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike
"Art is the most profound way of finding oneself."
Robert Motherwell
"Art is a way of recognizing oneself."
Robert Motherwell
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard
"The painter tries to master color, the composer tries to master sound, and they are both trying to master their own life."
Hisashi Inoue
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not have; the artist sees the figure in the block and carves it out."
Michelangelo
"Art can never really be free, it’s chickens coming home to roost; it’s always tied to the culture from which it comes."
Ampersand
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"The painter's and the poet's work should be better than themselves."
W. H. Auden
"Art is the heartbeat of culture."
Nicolas Roeg
"The aim of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate; it is life, intensified, brilliant life."
Scotland
"A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle."
François Auguste Renan
"Every creation is a gift from the artist."
Daniel J. Boorstin
"Art must be an integral part of our lives - it is an expression of our humanity."
Richard David Kennedy
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"The true artist is not proud; he is not boastful, he is recognized by the gifts that he makes."
Herman Melville
"The painter tries to master color, the musician, sound; the writer, language; the speaker, silence."
Viktor Shklovsky
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the soul, is simplicity."
Manuel de Falla
"I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart."
Vincent van Gogh
"Every artist is a bit of a magician, a performer, a bridge builder."
Jesse Jackson
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard
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"Art must be an integral part of your life."
Anna Wintour
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
Neil Gaiman
"The painter tries to master color, the composer tries to master tone, but the true artist masters his own spirit."
Hazrat Inayat Khan
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them."
Anton Chekhov
"I am an artist, and I do what I do because I cannot help it."
Eugene Ionesco
"Art is the most effective mode of communications."
John Dewey
"The chief function of the writer is to create the taste by which he is to be read."
T.S. Eliot
"The best artist has no conception that a marble block does not contain that shape within itself."
Michelangelo
"Every maker of laws should be a master of the arts."
William Shakespeare
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
William Blake
"An artist is not a special kind of person; every person is a special kind of artist."
Joe Deutch
"Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of work that has no other model than itself."
Gustave Courbet
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Pablo Picasso
"To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
Paul Klee
"Art is the highest form of hope."
Gerhard Richter
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
Gustav Klimt
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
John F. Kennedy
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"The painter tries to master color and shape, but the artist tries to achieve a universal emotion."
Paul Klee
"Every artist was first an amateur."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather, each person is a special kind of artist."
Martha Graham
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
Claude Debussy
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
Henry Moore
"Art is the journey of a free soul."
Alev Oguz
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
Oscar Wilde
"Every artist must be a thief."
T.S. Eliot
"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."
Paul Valéry
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Twyla Tharp
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"The greatest artists are the ones who express our feelings."
Hans Hofmann
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
César A. Cruz
"Art is the most effective mode of communication."
Ruth Asawa
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."
Vincent Van Gogh
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings."
Wassily Kandinsky
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."
Theodore Dreiser
"Art should be like a message in a bottle; the bottle is a small thing, but the message within can save your life."
Joni Mitchell
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
Frida Kahlo
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Charles Horton Cooley
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Gauguin
"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
Jerzy Kosinski
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
Leo Tolstoy
"Art is the triumph over chaos."
John Cheever
"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
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Edgar Degas
"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
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
Vincent van Gogh
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
Jean Arp
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