Art Quotes and Sayings

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
~Maya Angelou

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
~Lindsay Anderson

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
~Henry Moore

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
~Oscar Wilde

A picture is a poem without words.
~Horace

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~Scott Adams

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
~Gertrude Stein

All art is but imitation of nature.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
~Oscar Wilde

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~Oscar Wilde

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
~Henry Miller

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
~Pablo Picasso

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
~Andy Warhol

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
~ Robert Motherwell

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~Paul Gauguin

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~Theodore Dreiser

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~George Bernard Shaw

By the work one knows the workman.
~Jean de La Fontaine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
~Aristotle

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art picks up where nature ends.
~Marc Chagall

God and other artists are always a little obscure.
~Oscar Wilde

In art as in love, instinct is enough.
~Anatole France

My painting does not come from the easel.
~Jackson Pollock

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence
~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
~Pablo Picasso

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art
~ Konstantin Stanislavsky

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
~Walt Whitman

The secret of life is in art.
~Oscar Wilde

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
~Alfred North Whitehead

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist. ~Schumann

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
~Pablo Picasso

It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
~ Oscar Wilde

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