1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy Kosinski

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro

Trying to force creativity is never good.
Sarah McLachlan

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Robert Smithson