Art Quotes, Sayings about Artistic Work

Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening – Aaron Howard.

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.

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

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them – Andy Warhol.

All art requires courage – Anne Tucker.

Art is the struggle to understand – Audrey Foris.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance – Ben Jonson.

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

A man and his art are like a fool and his king – Corri Alius.

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination – Devin.

Art is not a thing; it is a way – Elbert Hubbard.

Art is the proper task of life – Friedrich Nietzsche.

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

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

Art disturbs, science reassures – Georges Braque.

Art is a kind of illness – Giacomo Puccini.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere – G.K. Chesterton.

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

Art is Man’s nature. Nature is god’s art – James Bailey.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life – Jean Paul Richter.

Art is spirituality in drag – Jennifer Yane.

Art is the triumph over chaos – John Cheever.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit – John Updike.

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet – Kojiro Tomita.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art – Konstantin Stanislavsky.

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen – Leonardo da Vinci.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization – Lincoln Steffens.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination – Meghan.

Art is what’s left over after you’ve defined everything else – Michael Vitale.

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

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

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art – Oscar Wilde.

The secret of life is in art – Oscar Wilde.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life – Oscar Wilde.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it – Paul Valery.

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people – Peter C. Wilson.

Painting is silent poetry – Plutarch, Moralia.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

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

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – and you answer – Star Riches.

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home – Twyla Tharp.

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

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television – Woody Allen.

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