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Quotes and Sayings about Art
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Philippe
: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss
: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe
: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss in
Intouchables
9
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Albert Einstein
in
The World As I See It
8
Science
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in
V for Vendetta
8
Truth
Politicians
Art is a way of survival.
5
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.
Pablo Picasso
5
Children & Childhood
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
4
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
Andy Warhol
3
Photography
Pictures
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
3
Daily Routine
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
2
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin
2
Self-Confidence
Quotes to think about
I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.
Cath Crowley
in
Graffiti Moon
2
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
2
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola
1
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
1
Talent
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
1
As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.
Peter Max
1
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1
Paris
The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
David Bailey
1
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoi
1
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
1
For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.
Cath Crowley
in
Graffiti Moon
1
Pictures
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
Oscar Wilde
1
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
William Saroyan
1
Art looks for truth. It embraces diversity. And that's why art is a threat. That's why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.
Robert De Niro
- May 2025
Art can shed light on our fears.
Hwei, the Visionary
in
League of Legends
Art is empty without empathy.
Hwei, the Visionary
in
League of Legends
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. Adorno
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Banksy
I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it.
Banksy
I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.
Tia Mowry
Solidarity makes me creative - you drink a glass of wine and feel even worse. Art can't exist without pain; and art exists to cure pain.
Till Lindemann
Pain
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov
Faith
Some of the greatest works of art were produced by intense grief.
Jasmine in
The In Between
Great Works
Great artists suffer for the people.
Marvin Gaye
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Tim Burton
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
Art has never been a popularity contest.
James Levine
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
William Somerset Maugham
It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
Juice WRLD
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Eugenio Montale
I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.
John Mellencamp
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Salvador Dalí
Inspiration
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
Geri Halliwell
Perfection
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
Drawing
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney
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4
Drawing
Sun
Act on inspiration when it strikes.
Hwei, the Visionary
in
League of Legends
Inspiration
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
Hans Hofmann
1
Colors
Light
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
Culture
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