Art Quotes

Adler, Stella

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

Albani, Emma

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Beecher, Harriet Ward

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Blake, William

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

da Vinci, Leonardo

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Ellis, Havelock

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Faulkner, William

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Fielding, Henry

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Forster, E.M.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Frost, Robert

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Gauguin, Paul

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Gide, Andre

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Gracian, Baltasar

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Guaguin, Paul

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Herman, George

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational -- and probably sexual!

Nehru, Jawaharial

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

New Yorker

But that's what being an artist is -- feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Picasso, Pablo

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Reid, Kate

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Ruskin, John

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Simonides

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Tolstoy, Leo

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Unknown

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Unknown

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.

von Schiller, Johann Friedrich

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Welles, Orson

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Wharton, Edith

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Wilde, Oscar

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Wilde, Oscar

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.