Quotes about Art



     “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
-Pablo Picasso


    “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
-Oscar Wilde


    “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
-Oscar Wilde


     “Art is the proper task of life.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche


     “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
-Oscar Wilde


     “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
-Twyla Tharp


      “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

    “Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
-Elbert Hubbard


     “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
-Oscar Wilde


      “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
-Jonathan Swift


     “In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
-Anatole France


    “Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


     “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-Scott Adams


     “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
-Thomas Merton


      “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
-Dale Carnegie


     “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
-Theodor Adorno


       “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
-Andre Gide


      “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
-Igor Stravinsky


      “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
-Charles Horton Cooley


      “One eye sees, the other feels.”
-Paul Klee



       “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
-Miguel Angel Ruiz


      “The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
-Quintilian


     “Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
-John Ruskin


      “Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”
-Gwendolyn Brooks


      “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
-Emile Zola


      “Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
-Malcolm de Chazal


      “An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
-George Santayana


     “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
-Albert Ellis


     “Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
-Henry A. Kissinger


     “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
-William James


     “I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
-Helen Hayes


     “Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
-Robert Smithson


     “Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
-Carroll O'Connor


     “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
-Don Marquis


      “Art is science made clear.”
-Wilson Mizner


      “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
-John W. Gardner

      “The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
-Novalis


      “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
-Leonardo da Vinci


      “Art is the daughter of freedom.”
-Friedrich Schiller


     “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
-Pablo Picasso