James Whistler
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
Orson Welles
“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most…
Jackson Pollock
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette,…
Baltasar Gracian
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to…
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
William Butler Yeats
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Khalil Gibran
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and…
Duke Ellington
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous…
John Updike
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
Andy Warhol
“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
William Morris Hunt
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
Andre Malraux
“An art book is a museum without walls.”
Wilson Mizner
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
Franz Liszt
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Robert Delaunay
“Vision is the true creative rhythm.”
Rebecca West
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Pierre Bonnard
“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.”
Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Constantin Stanislavski
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of Art.”
Anatole France
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
W. H. Auden
“Art is born of humiliation.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”