Art Quotes

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. (Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987)

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887)

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. (Albert Camus, 1913-1960)

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art. (Marc Chagall, 1887-1985)

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. (Charles Horton Cooley, 1864-1929)

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940)

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you are an artist. (Max Jacob, 1876-1944)

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity. (Henry James, 1843-1916)

The great artist of this world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. (Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903)

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? (Sebastian Horsley, 1962)

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses. (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience. (Yehudi Menuhin, 1916-1999)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo, 1475-1564)

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. (Michelangelo, 1475-1564)

Art has to be forgotten: Beauty must be realized. (Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944)

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900)

Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. (Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973)

The artist is a receptacle for the 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, 1881-1973)

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. (Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973)

True artists are almost the only men who do their work with pleasure. (Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917)

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860)

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

In life beauty perishes, but not in art. (Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519)

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else. (Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519)

I you want to know everything about me, just look at the surface of my paintings, it's all there, there's nothing more. (Andy Warhol, 1928-1987)

All art is quite useless. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. He leaves that to the popular novelist. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

She is like most artists; she has style without any sincerity. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola , 1840-1902)

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