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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. -Salvador Dali

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. -Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. -Arthur Schopenhauer

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. -Jackson Pollock

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -Al Capp

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -Emile Zola

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. -Francis Bacon

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. -George Edward Moore

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. -Gustave Flaubert

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.-Ansel Adams

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

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor. -Henry A. Kissinger

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. -Walt Whitman

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. -Ansel Adams

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. -W. Somerset Maugham

I cry out for order and find it only in art. -Helen Hayes

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. -John Ruskin

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. -Salvador Dali

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. -Gertrude Stein

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. -George Santayana

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. -Honore de Balzac