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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.-Winston Churchill

Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. -Oscar Wilde

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. -Pablo Picasso

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -Albert Einstein

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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. -Abraham Lincoln

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. -Pablo Picasso

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. -Marshall McLuhan

All art is but imitation of nature. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. -Carl Rogers

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. -Andy Warhol

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. -Miguel Angel Ruiz

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

In art the best is good enough. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. -Pablo Picasso

In art as in love, instinct is enough. -Anatole France

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. -Edgar Degas(Art quotes)

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. -Dale Carnegie

Personality is everything in art and poetry. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -Ambrose Bierce

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -Andre Gide

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. -Hedy Lamarr

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

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. -Charles Horton Cooley

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. -Michelangelo

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. -Andy Warhol

The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -Henry Ward Beecher

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. -Jonathan Swift

A picture is a poem without words. -Horace

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. -Albert Camus