1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leav
Emma Albani

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin
Leonardo Da Vinci

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

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.
William Faulkner

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti
Henry Fielding

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.
E.M. Forster

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
Paul Gauguin

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

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Guaguin

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
George Herman

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have o
Stella Adler

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

But that's what being an artist is
New Yorker

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nat
Harriet Ward Beecher

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

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

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

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