Art Quotes
Art is a diverse range of human activity. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, there are three classical branches of visual art: painting, sculpture and architecture.
533 Quotes Found
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Louis Dudek
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Robert Indiana
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Maurice Chevalier
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Louis Kahn
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Paracelsus
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.
Cyril Connolly
Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
Valentino Rossi
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
Jef I. Richards
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.
Henri Matisse
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
David Rockefeller
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
Robert Quillen
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
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
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Jay Kay
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. -Henri Cartier
Bresson
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David Bowie
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
Bjarke Ingels
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
David Hockney
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
Tamara Taylor
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I see it may be completely different than the way somebody else sees it. It's interesting to hear what somebody sees in a piece of art compared to somebody else. It could be completely different, and that's interesting to me.
Joakim Noah
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
Chris Bangle
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
JR
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Kurt Vonnegut
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
Sol LeWitt
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck
In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.
Francisco Goya
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Paul Hawken
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Ernest Benn
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
John Wooden
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
Jim Dine
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
Jacques Prevert
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
Lorraine Hansberry
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.
Michael Moore
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.
Sharon Salzberg
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
Emily Carr
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Ossie Davis
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
Don King
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. -Olivia Newton
John
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
Alan Moore
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
Santiago Calatrava
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Agnes Martin
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Paulo Coelho
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
John Williams
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Andrei Tarkovsky
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
K. D. Lang
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
Chuck Close
Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
Paul Samuelson
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'
Yayoi Kusama
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. -Jean
Michel Basquiat
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.
Jerry Saltz
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. -Henri Cartier
Bresson
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
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.
Christopher Voss
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
George Lucas
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Thornton Wilder
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Prince
Who said that looking good is not a task? There are so many girls with a well maintained body, but will they be able to walk the beachside in front of the camera wearing a swimsuit? Carrying your body in a certain manner to look sexy is also an art.
Taapsee Pannu
When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
Victoria Osteen
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
Your body is not your art - it's your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
Gustave Flaubert
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady Gaga
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
Arsene Wenger
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip Guston
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.
Ludovico Einaudi
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Kehinde Wiley
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Jerry Saltz
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
Diane Paulus
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Cyril Connolly
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
Grandma Moses