1,029 Quotes Regarding Art


Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
Glenn Hughes

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
Lady Gaga

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
Honore de Balzac

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Hagen

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Horace

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
Sri Chinmoy

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John Ruskin

What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'
Jef I. Richards

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
Thom Yorke

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne

History develops, art stands still.
E. M. Forster

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope