Elbert Hubbard
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
John Singer Sargent
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
Joan Miro
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”
Andrew Wyeth
“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.”
Robert Motherwell
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could…
Grandma Moses
“If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better…
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.”
Louis Dudek
“Art is anything people do with distinction.”
Willa Cather
“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist,…
Andre Malraux
“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.”
John Galliano
“But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.”
Jean Cocteau
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Alan Alda
“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has…
Ellen Key
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
Hedy Lamarr
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,…
Scott Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Ad Reinhardt
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
Andy Warhol
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of…
George Sand
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
Francoise Sagan
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
Edward Steichen
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Tadao Ando
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
Anton Chekhov
“There is nothing new in art except talent.”
Balthus
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the…
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Theodore Bikel
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
Marcel Duchamp
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”