Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the…

— Pablo Picasso

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when…

— Ernst Junger

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in…

— John Green

“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing at re-cycling…

— Jean Baudrillard

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one’s own standards takes a certain maturity…

— Kathleen Tessaro

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

— Al Capp

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

— Steve Martin