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

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte on art

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin on art

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on art

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

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller on art

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali on art

Art is not a thing it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard on art

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams on art

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift on art

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace on art

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus on art

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard on art

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe on art

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher on art

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo on art

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol on art