Walter Annenberg
“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.”
Steve Lacy
“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”
Gustave Courbet
“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
Robert Delaunay
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
Igor Stravinsky
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Rene Magritte
“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
Hans Hofmann
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”
John Ruskin
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man…
Herbie Hancock
“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.”
Paul Klee
“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.”
George Jean Nathan
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
Willem de Kooning
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Martin Kippenberger
“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.”
Guru Nanak
“From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.”
Alfred de Vigny
“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation…
Martha Graham
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.”
Paul Cezanne
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Joan Miro
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”
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.”
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…