Alexander Pope
“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Charles de Lint
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it…
Edgar Degas
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Havelock Ellis
“Man lives by imagination.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
Paul Gauguin
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Jackson Pollock
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
Walt Disney
“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of…
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art…
Henry Kissinger
“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.”
Ashley Montagu
“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”
Corita Kent
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with…
Salvador Dali
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is…
Georges Braque
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
Orson Welles
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”
Jeff Rich
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of…
Ansel Adams
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
George Edward Moore
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
E. M. Forster
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men…
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
Federico Fellini
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Charles Ives
“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not…
Ad Reinhardt
“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Novalis
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”