Art Quotes

14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors

You see what you know! — Frank Stella
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything,… — Keith Haring
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with… — Paul Cezanne
I paint in order not to cry. — Paul Klee
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way. — Winslow Homer
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. — Oscar Wilde
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. — Bill Tilden
Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit. — John Dryden
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred de Vigny
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and… — George Bernard Shaw
All art is an imitation of nature. — Seneca the Elder
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. — Pablo Picasso
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. — Iris Murdoch
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman
I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art. — Fran Drescher
There is no separate art of life. If you know how to allow poetry, if you know how to allow dance, if you know how… — Rajneesh
All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. I say remember, because you knew it already.… — Rajneesh
Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is… — Rajneesh
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two… — Rajneesh
The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or… — Rajneesh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Simone Weil
New arts destroy the old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die… — Rajneesh

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