Art Quotes

14657 Art quotes by 5537 unique authors

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. — Peter Gabriel
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life. — Frank Stella
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure… — James Weldon Johnson
Art is an elastic sort of love. — Josephine Baker
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist. — Mary McLeod Bethune
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. — Nikki Giovanni
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that… — Spike Lee
It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is. — Pablo Picasso
This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax. — Pablo Picasso
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. — Pablo Picasso
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. — Roy Lichtenstein
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro
All great art is a visual form of prayer. — Wendy Beckett
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are… — Kenneth Tynan
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. — Agnes Repplier
Art disturbs, science reassures. — Georges Braque
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more… — Susan Sontag
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he… — Paul Gauguin
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them. — Julia Cameron
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius — Grace Hartigan
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. — Hilton Kramer
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle

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