George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of Art.”
Anatole France
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
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.”
Claude Debussy
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Le Corbusier
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
John Stuart Mill
“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Edward Hopper
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Emile Zola
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Jerzy Kosinski
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
Edward Dmytryk
“In art, the obvious is a sin.”
Charles Eames
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”
Auguste Rodin
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
Beatrice Wood
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just…
Balthus
“I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.”
Robert Mapplethorpe
“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
Claude Monet
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Clara Schumann
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
Ansel Adams
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
David Hockney
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for…
Charles de Lint
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
Havelock Ellis
“Man lives by imagination.”
Walt Disney
“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of…
Ashley Montagu
“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”