91 quotes
“The job of the artist and creative person is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
— Arthur Miller
“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
— Epicurus
“Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space I consider sculpture”
— Isamu Noguchi
“Life doesnt last art doesnt last it doesnt matter”
— Eva Hesse
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time and faith does the same”
— Thomas Merton
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
“Art is not about understanding or knowledge or explanation but of experience”
— Ruth Asawa
“Great art picks up where nature ends”
— Marc Chagall
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
— Theodore Dreiser
“An artist should not lie to himself or others an artist should not steal ideas from other artists an artist should not compromise for themselves or in regards to the art market”
— Marina Abramovic
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
— Francis Bacon
“Take your broken heart make it into art”
— Meryl Streep
“The purpose of art and creativity is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
— James Baldwin
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life and replaces it with wonder”
— Pablo Picasso
“The work of art is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.”
— Paul Klee
“Works of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticism”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“Art is not what you see but what you make others see”
— Degas
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
— Aristotle
“Art has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a bus”
— David Hockney
“Everyone is an artist in their own way”
— Joseph Beuys
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escape”
— bell hooks
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.”
— Joshua Reynolds
“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“I dont think about art when I work I try to think about life”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
— Molière
“Art is what you can get away with”
— Andy Warhol
“Art is for everybody not just the chosen few”
— Keith Haring
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“There is no must in art because art is free and creativity cannot be constrained.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
“Art is a kind of illness”
— Giacomo Puccini
“To catch a glimpse of the marvelous in the ordinary is the task of art and wonder makes it possible”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
— Unknown
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
— Auguste Rodin
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
— Claude Monet
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being”
— Robert Henri
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
— Christo
“There is no must in art because art is free”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I could not say any other way things I had no words for”
“Art does not show people what to do yet engaging with art asks us to think about why things are as they are”
— Olafur Eliasson
“Art is the highest form of hope”
— Gerhard Richter
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
“Less is more”
— Robert Browning
“Art cannot be modern art is primordially eternal”
— Egon Schiele
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
— Thomas Browne
“Art is born from life and returns to life”
— Bill Viola
“The value of art is in the observer when you find truth you find beauty”
— Agnes Martin
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
“Art is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the real”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Architecture is frozen music.”
— Schelling
“I paint flowers so they will not die”
— Frida Kahlo
“A line is a dot that went for a walk”
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture”
— Jean Cocteau
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.”
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
— Michelangelo
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann
“The practice of compassion requires discipline and concentration it is an art that demands mastery”
— Erich Fromm
“Mystery is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“Life is art art is life I never separate it”
— Ai Weiwei
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution”
— Paul Gauguin
“Everything is art everything is politics”
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
“All art is autobiographical the pearl is the oysters autobiography”
— Federico Fellini
“Art is a guarantee of sanity in a chaotic world”
— Louise Bourgeois
“Art is a guarantee of sanity”
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”
— Banksy
— Georgia O Keeffe
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“The position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channel”
— Piet Mondrian
“I am for an art that is political erotical and mystical”
— Claes Oldenburg
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.”
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