Best 100 Art Quotes | Quotes On Art, art of living quotes

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. -Emmet Fox

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. -John Ruskin

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. -Pablo Picasso

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. -Samuel Butler

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. -Salvador Dali

Art is not a thing it is a way. -Elbert Hubbard

You don’t take a photograph, you make it. -Ansel Adams

We have art in order not to die of the truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.- Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -George Bernard Shaw

Pictures must not be too picturesque. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -Twyla Tharp

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. -Henry Miller

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams

A picture is worth a thousand words. -Napoleon Bonaparte

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. -Anais Nin

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. -Henry David Thoreau

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. -James Whistler

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. -Khalil Gibran

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. -Oscar Wilde

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. -Albert Camus

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.-Oscar Wilde

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.-Thomas Merton