“
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
“
Art begins with resistance, at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
“
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
“
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
Giuseppe Mazzini
“
Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.
Duane Hanson
“
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
“
Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
“
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.
Russell L. Ackoff
“
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
“
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
“
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
Carl Andre
“
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
“
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
L. Nevelson
“
Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot Eisner
“
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. Adorno
“
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
“
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
“
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
“
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
“
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Edith Wharton
“
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
“
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
“
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
“
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
“
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
“
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
“
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
“
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
John Dewey
“
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Bruce Lee
“
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
Robert Browning
“
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Banksy
“
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
Hugh MacLeod
“
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
“
Art's whatever you choose to frame.
Fleur Adcock
“
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol
“
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomita
“
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Richard Garnett
“
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
“
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
“
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.
Katherine Anne Porter
“
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
“
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Isaac D'Israeli
“
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
“
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
“
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in art for art's sake.
E. M. Forster
“
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
“
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
“
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
“
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Bertolt Brecht
“
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
“
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
“
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
“
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Perfection in art, as often in life, is better captured by eraser than pencil.
Robert Brault
“
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
“
Art is anything you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
“
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
“
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
“
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Marc Chagall
“
Art is man's challenge to time, his rebuke to chaos; the protest will survive neither the triumph of fire, nor the finality of ice — but it is better than the silence of consent.
Dr. Idel Dreimer
“
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
“
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
“
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
John Chamberlain
“
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
“
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
“
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
“
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
“
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read
“
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
Jeanette Winterson
“
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
“
Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.
Pat Allen
“
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich
“
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
“
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
“
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
Laurie Halse Anderson
“
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar Wilde
“
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Leo Tolstoy
“
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Donald Judd
“
The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable.
Charles Bukowski
“
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
“
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
“
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
“
Art begins with resistance, at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
“
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
“
Art does not imitate, but interpret.
Giuseppe Mazzini
“
Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.
Duane Hanson
“
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
“
Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
“
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.
Russell L. Ackoff
“
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
“
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
“
Art is an intersection of many human needs.
Carl Andre
“
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
“
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
L. Nevelson
“
Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot Eisner
“
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor W. Adorno
“
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
“
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
“
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
“
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
“
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Edith Wharton
“
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
“
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
“
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
“
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
“
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
“
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
“
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
“
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
John Dewey
“
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.
Bruce Lee
“
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
Robert Browning
“
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
Banksy
“
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
Hugh MacLeod
“
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton
“
Art's whatever you choose to frame.
Fleur Adcock
“
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol
“
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomita
“
It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Richard Garnett
“
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
“
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
“
The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.
Katherine Anne Porter
“
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
“
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Isaac D'Israeli
“
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
“
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
“
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in art for art's sake.
E. M. Forster
“
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
“
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
“
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
“
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
Bertolt Brecht
“
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
“
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
“
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
“
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“
Perfection in art, as often in life, is better captured by eraser than pencil.
Robert Brault
“
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
“
Art is anything you can get away with.
Marshall McLuhan
“
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
“
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
“
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Marc Chagall
“
Art is man's challenge to time, his rebuke to chaos; the protest will survive neither the triumph of fire, nor the finality of ice — but it is better than the silence of consent.
Dr. Idel Dreimer
“
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
“
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
“
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
John Chamberlain
“
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
“
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
“
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
“
Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
“
Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read
“
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.
Jeanette Winterson
“
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
“
Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.
Pat Allen
“
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Mary Schmich
“
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Jean Cocteau
“
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
“
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
Laurie Halse Anderson
“
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Oscar Wilde
“
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
Leo Tolstoy
“
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
Donald Judd
“
The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable.
Charles Bukowski
“
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
“
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
“
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Andy Warhol
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