Art Quotes

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

Quotes about art
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. -Arthur Erickson
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process. -Tadao Ando
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind. -James Taylor
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. -Jerzy Kosinski
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
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. -Edward Steichen
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. -Robert Mapplethorpe
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. -Roy Lichtenstein(Art quotes)
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need. -Auguste Rodin

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. -Arthur Erickson
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. -Edgard Varese
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. -Paul Getty
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
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
Wherever art appears, life disappears. -Robert Motherwell
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
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate. -Andre Malraux
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. -Theodore Dreiser
I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing. -Francis Ford Coppola
My painting does not come from the easel. -Jackson Pollock
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. -Stephen Sondheim

Art of living quotes

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. -Henri Matisse
Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. -Robert Mapplethorpe
The perfection of art is to conceal art. -Quintilian
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
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