Popular Art Quotes
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| S.No | Quotes | Author |
| 1 | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | Scott Adams |
| 2 | Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. | Jonathan Swift |
| 3 | Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. | Twyla Tharp |
| 4 | A picture is a poem without words. | Horace |
| 5 | Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. | Stella Adler |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. | Georgia O’Keeffe |
| 8 | You don’t take a photograph, you make it. | Ansel Adams |
| 9 | A line is a dot that went for a walk. | Paul Klee |
| 10 | Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. | Theodore Dreiser |
| 11 | Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. | Thomas Wolfe |
| 12 | Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. | Edgar Degas |
| 13 | An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. | James Whistler |
| 14 | Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. | Jackson Pollock |
| 15 | The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. | Jerzy Kosinski |
| 16 | If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. | Vincent Van Gogh |
| 17 | I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. | Le Corbusier |
| 18 | Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 19 | In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. | Ernst Fischer |
| 20 | To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. | Robert Schumann |
| 21 | The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. | Pablo Picasso |
| 22 | Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. | Stephen Sondheim |
| 23 | The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 24 | I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. | Andy Warhol |
| 25 | The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. | Joan Miro |
| 26 | The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 27 | This world is but a canvas to our imagination. | Henry David Thoreau |
| 28 | Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. | Rene Magritte |
| 29 | Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. | Dorothea Lange |
| 30 | My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. | Raoul Dufy |
| 31 | A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. | Henry Moore |
| 32 | The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. | Emile Zola |
| 33 | Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. | Henry Ward Beecher |
| 34 | A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. | Hedy Lamarr |
| 35 | When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. | Alfred Eisenstaedt |
| 36 | The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. | Theodor W. Adorno |
| 37 | There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. | Ansel Adams |
| 38 | Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. | Thomas Merton |
| 39 | One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. | Balthus |
| 40 | Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. | Charles Eames |
| 41 | What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. | John Updike |
| 42 | Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. | John Ruskin |
| 43 | An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. | Jean Cocteau |
| 44 | Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. | Egon Schiele |
| 45 | The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. | Aristotle |
| 46 | The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. | Eugene Delacroix |
| 47 | Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. | Claude Monet |
| 48 | I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 49 | Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. | Agnes Martin |
| 50 | Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. | Don Miguel Ruiz |
| 51 | Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms. | Roy Lichtenstein |
| 52 | What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. | John Berger |
| 53 | Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| 54 | Art is a harmony parallel with nature. | Paul Cezanne |
| 55 | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. | Pablo Picasso |
| 56 | Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. | Gian Carlo Menotti |
| 57 | Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. | Marshall McLuhan |
| 58 | I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists. | Marcel Duchamp |
| 59 | Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. | Igor Stravinsky |
| 60 | Art is Art. Everything else is everything else. | Ad Reinhardt |