1,029 Quotes Regarding Art

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

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

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

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Unknown

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Unknown

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

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

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

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