Art Quotes and Sayings

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein

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Every unique work of art is beautiful; just like when God created all living things, each are of individual designs, individual purposes, but still, all are beautiful.

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Art is a passion or it is nothing.

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Art is what you can get away with.
– Andy Warhol

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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
– Albert Einstein

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Art is not a democracy. People don’t get to vote on how it ends.
– George R.R. Martin

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I shut my eyes in order to see.
– Paul Gauguin

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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
– Claude Monet

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
– Oscar Wilde

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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
– Leonardo da Vinci

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
– Mary Daly

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I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
– Henri Matisse

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Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power.

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The only rule in art is what works.

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
– Michelangelo

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
– Stella Adler

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
– Amy Lowell

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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
– Pablo Picasso

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Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
– Georges Braque

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All art is an imitation of nature.
– Seneca

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There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.
– Oscar Wilde

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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
– Magdalena Abakanowicz

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The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
– Claes Oldenburg

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All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
– Alexander Liberman

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There is no must in art because art is free.
– Wassily Kandinsky

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It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

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God is the greatest artist I know.

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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
– Sir Walter Scott

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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
– Simone de Beauvoir

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Art is not about what you see but what you make others see.
– Edgar Degas

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Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist.

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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
– Leonardo da Vinci

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Art isn’t about being the better artist it’s about being inspired, having fun, and having patience.

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Art enables us to find ourselves & lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton

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Human being creates and brings to existence just like God did but one thing he lacks is the art of immortality which reduces his art to a copy.

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The Earth without “ART” is just “EH”.

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Reveal your colors! Free your soul. You are the art of a Great Creator!

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Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
– Paul Klee

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso

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A picture is worth a thousand words.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

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There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
– Charlie Chaplin

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Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down.
– Julia Cameron

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I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
– Criss Jami

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Art is the signature of civilizations.
– Beverly Sills

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Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
– Leo Tolstoy

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Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training.
– Anna Freud

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Great art picks up where nature ends.
– Marc Chagall

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