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

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. -John Ruskin

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. -Ambrose Bierce

Even a true artist does not always produce art. -Carroll O’Connor

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist. -David Hockney

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. -Friedrich Schiller

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.- Gustave Flaubert

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. -Theodor Adorno

Things are beautiful if you love them. -Jean Anouilh

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things. -Henri Matisse

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. -John Berger

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. -Theodor Adorno

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. -Federico Fellini

Art is science made clear. -Wilson Mizner

Rules and models destroy genius and art. -William Hazlitt

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. -Lionel Trilling

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. -Robert Schumann

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. -William Wordsworth

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

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. -Clara Schumann

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

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. -John Updike

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. -Harry S. Truman

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. -Henry Miller

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. -Marshall McLuhan

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. -Michelangelo

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. -Andre Gide

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. -Henri Cartier-Bresson

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. -Alexander Pope

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

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. -Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every good painter paints what he is. -Jackson Pollock

The history of art is the history of revivals. -Samuel Butler

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. -David Herbert Lawrence

By the work one knows the workman. -Jean de La Fontaine

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms. -Roy Lichtenstein

My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. -Paul Getty

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. -Gwendolyn Brooks

I think about my work every minute of the day. -Jeff Koons