All 78,476 Quotes

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Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh on art

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse on art

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

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

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin on art

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky on art

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

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

Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller on art

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis on art

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall on art

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

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian on art

My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock on art

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

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

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

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

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