Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness. — Kenneth Myers Copy Share Image
Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary,… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about art is that you can create it anywhere. I made a record of cover tunes on… — Kasey Anderson Copy Share Image
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
Visionary art sure has played a vital role in my own "soul's journey," and I would say it's been important for many… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion. — John Roecker Copy Share Image
Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
