Quotes about Art

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."

"The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class."

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

"Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."

"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"I paint with shapes."

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

"Art is anything people do with distinction."

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity."

"The work of art is a scream of freedom."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"I cry out for order and find it only in art."

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."

"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."