Art Quote by Albert C. Barnes

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

— Pierre Soulages

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

— Walter J. Phillips

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more…

— Paul Auster

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the…

— Millard Sheets

I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to…

— Stephen Beal

Art is the great stimulus to life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in…

— Fernando Botero