Art - Quotes & Sayings
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia KazanMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Agnes MartinIn art, the obvious is a sin.
Edward DmytrykMy imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara SchumannRationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur EricksonVitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur EricksonArt is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich SchillerWhen I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert MapplethorpeTo make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert MapplethorpeArt is science made clear.
Wilson MiznerThere hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
Constantin BrancusiThe goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Alfred StieglitzMost art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Donald JuddI realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
Robert IndianaThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NovalisAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean CocteauAn original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean CocteauPainting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip GustonThe Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
David RockefellerDraw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre BonnardA painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre BonnardArt is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth BowenDuring the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.
Joshua FoerPainting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert DelaunayArt in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert DelaunayI'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 AndersonArt ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred de VignyOf what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de VignyArt must take reality by surprise.
Francoise SaganLayer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert MusilNo heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore BikelThe more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen KeyInsight is the first condition of Art.
George Henry LewesThe artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul StrandArt is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de ChazalI'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Jay KayI see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
John ZornContrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard VareseWhen I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim HodgesThe mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
William Morris HuntAn artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
Maurice ChevalierThe philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
Louis DudekArt is anything people do with distinction.
Louis DudekMy eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
Raoul DufyWhat I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
Raoul DufyI don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Ernst FischerGreat art is an instant arrested in eternity.
James HunekerThe 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