1,029 Quotes Regarding Art

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney

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

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis

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

Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian

My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux

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

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell