Art Quotes
14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors
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A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.
— Caspar David Friedrich
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The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art.
— Caspar David Friedrich
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All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
— Max Beckmann
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There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
— Georges Braque
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
— Maya Lin
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All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy…
— Henri Matisse
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A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
— Hans Hofmann
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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
— Paul Klee
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Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
— Marc Chagall
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In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
— Pablo Picasso
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
— Hans Hofmann
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Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
— Hans Hofmann
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
— Robert Motherwell
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Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
— Marcel Duchamp
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Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
— Auguste Rodin
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Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
— Lawren Harris
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A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
— Edvard Munch
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I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
— Grace Hartigan
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Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
— Ken Danby
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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
— Alfred Stieglitz
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My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
— Louise Bourgeois
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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