1,029 Quotes Regarding 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

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

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

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr