Honore de Balzac
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
Joseph Joubert
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
Pierre Bonnard
“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”
Winston Churchill
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is…
Edward Steichen
“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”
Malcolm de Chazal
“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
Paul Gauguin
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Herman Melville
“Art is the objectification of feeling.”
Robert Delaunay
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Voltaire
“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We…
Paul Klee
“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.”
Charles Eames
“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
Alfred de Vigny
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
Georges Braque
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
Jane Rule
“I believe only in art and failure.”
Alan Alda
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has…
Robert Schumann
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of…
Dale Carnegie
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
Hans Hofmann
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the…
William Blake
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”
Mary Leakey
“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
Arne Jacobsen
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
Hippocrates
“Life is short, the art long.”
Tadao Ando
“My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.”
Henri Matisse
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Victor Hugo
“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
Flannery O’Connor
“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
Robert Motherwell
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”