Art Quotes

“Art is amovie”

— David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking

Art is communication.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't enjoy art.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

Art is forever.

— Thomas Kinkade

“Art is light.”

— Arnold Weinstein

“To Live Is To Art”

— Eleazer Ikekwe

Art is a way of life.

— Bryce Dessner

I hate art auctions.

— Jerry Saltz

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

Making art is an act of faith.

— Julia Cameron

My favorite artists would be Drake, Future.

— JaVale McGee

I look at everything in an artistic way.

— Tony Curtis

I had to learn martial arts.

— Esme Creed-Miles

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

— Henrik Fisker

Imagination is best art ever.

— JeMaSae

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanna have a positive impact and bring in artists on the come-up. It gets me hyped!

— Craig David

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

— Michelangelo

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

— Alexander Woollcott

“As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist

— David Bowie

I've been so blessed to work with all my favorite artists as a gay man.

— MNEK

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art…

— Margot Fonteyn

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.

— Arthur Mattuck

“Art is short for artificial…so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation… In…

— Joni Mitchell

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist…

— Julie Doucet

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they…

— Jim McDonough

I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art…

— Vasyl Lomachenko

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the…

— Rudyard Kipling

“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,…

— Oscar Wilde

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that…

— Czeslaw Milosz

Here's something weird, though: I loved Jimi's music so much that I would never perform it for people. Throughout my teens and…

— Joe Satriani

“Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed…

— Bryan Burrough

I don't know what I am on set. I can be many different things on set depending on how stressful a situation…

— Cary Fukunaga

“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding…

— John Ruskin

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.…

— Jørn Utzon

As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so…

— Kelela

Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love…

— Anonymous