The best Quotes and Sayings about Art (Page 2)

I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words

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.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Art is a way of survival.

For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

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.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.

I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That’s how I started painting money.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating.

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."

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.