I leave you the best art quotes from famous artists such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Woody Allen, Salvador Dalí and many more.
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35-In art, the hand can never run anything higher than the heart can imagine.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The true work of art is nothing more than a shadow of divine perfection.-Michelangelo.
-The objective of art is not to represent the external appearance of things, but their inner meaning.-Aristotle.
-Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.-Marc Chagall.
-Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.-Thomas Merton.
-Learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.-Pablo Picasso.
-The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from everywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing form, from a spider's web.-Pablo Picasso.
-No great artist sees things as they really are. If I did, I would stop being an artist.-Oscar Wilde.
-To be an artist is to believe in life.-Henry Moore.
-Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.-Edgar Degas.
-There is no duty in art because art is free.-Wassily Kandinsky.
-There is nothing more truly artistic than loving people.-Vincent van Gogh.
-An artist is someone who produces things that people do not need.-Andy Warhol.
-The purpose of art is the washing of the dust of the daily life of our souls.-Pablo Picasso.
-If you hear a voice inside you that says «you cannot paint», paint by all means, and that voice will be silenced.-Vincent van Gogh.
-The painting is poetry that is seen and not felt, and poetry is painting that is felt and not seen.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-Between a madman and me there is only one difference. The madman thinks he is sane and I know that I am mad.-Salvador Dalí.
-Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. The art is to know which ones to keep.-Scott Adams.
-If it is sold, it is art.-Frank Lloyd.
-I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.-Frida Kahlo.
-I dream of my painting and I paint my dream.-Vincent van Gogh.
-The perfection of art is to hide art.-Quintilian.
-The essence of all beautiful art, of all great art, is gratitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-A man paints with his brain and not with his hands.-Michelangelo.
35-A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art.-Paul Cezanne.
-A great artist is always ahead of his time or behind it.-George Moore.
-You do not make art of good intentions.-Gustave Flaubert.
-Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is good or bad.-Salvador Dalí.
-I'd rather die of passion than boredom.-Vincent van Gogh.
-Abstract art is what those without talent produce and what those without principles sell, to those who are deeply confused and disoriented.-All Capp.
-Many excellent cooks are spoiled because they are dedicated to art.-Paul Cauguin.
-Don't be afraid of perfection, you will never achieve it.-Salvador Dalí.
-Art is the lie that allows us to understand the truth.-Pablo Picasso.
-We have art so as not to die of the truth.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-The principle of true art is not to represent, but to evoke.-Jerzy Kosinski.
-Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.-Pablo Picasso.
-I inherited a painting and a violin that turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made terrible violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.-Tommy Cooper.
-Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of all the photographs is the frame.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
-Either it is a fake or a really smart original.-Frank Sullivan.
-Without art, the harshness of reality would make the world unbearable.-George Bernard Shaw.
-One eye sees, the other feels.-Paul Klee.
-Art is the only way to escape without leaving home.-Twyla Tharp.
-All art is quite useless.-Oscar Wilde.
-Sending light to the darkness of the hearts of men, such is the duty of the artist.-Schumann.
-Each artist immerses his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature in his paintings.-Henry Ward Beecher.
-Anyone who says that you can not see a thought simply does not know about art.-Wynetka Ann Reynolds.
-The art of art, the glory of expression and the sun of the light of letters, is simplicity.-Walt Whitman.
-Which painting from the National Gallery would you save if a fire broke out? Whoever was closest to the door, of course.-George Bernard Shaw.
-An image is a poem without words.-Horacio.
-Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The painter has the universe in his mind and body.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.-John W. Gardner.
-Some painters transform the Sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the Sun.-Pablo Picasso.
-I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.-Henri Matisse.
-Poor is the student who does not exceed his teacher.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-God and other artists are always a bit dark.-Oscar Wilde.
-The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.-Anton Chekhov.
-The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.-Émile Zola.
-The position of the artist is humble. It is essentially a canal.-Piet Mondrian.
-When nations grow old, the arts cool down, and commerce settles in every tree.-William Blake.
-There is no abstract art. You always have to start with something. Then you can eliminate all traces of reality.-Pablo Picasso.
-Creativity requires courage.-Henri Matisse.
-The personality is everything in art and poetry.-Goethe.
-Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo Picasso.
-True art is characterized by an irresistible need in the creative artist.-Albert Einstein.
-Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.-Andre Gide.
-Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.-Oscar Wilde.
-I do not say everything, but I paint everything.-Pablo Picasso.
-Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to register the reactions of his personality in the world in which he lives.-Amy Lowell.
-Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso.
-Art is not bread, but the wine of life.-Jean Paul Richter.
-The artist's job is always to delve into the mystery.-Francis Bacon.
-The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.-Orson Welles.
-Art is not a thing; It is a path.-Elbert Hubbard.
-What garlic is to salad, madness is to art.-Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
-The greatest respect that an artist can pay to music is to give it life.-Pablo Casals.
-Great art begins where nature ends.-Marc Chagall.
35-An artist never finishes his work, he simply abandons it.-Paul Valéry.
-The impulse to destroy is also a creative impulse.-Pablo Picasso.
-To paint, you must close your eyes and sing.-Pablo Picasso.
-In art as in love, instinct is enough.-Anatole France.
-Art is not a craft, it is the transmission of the sensations of what the artist has experienced.-Leo Tolstoy.
-Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep that have no shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.-Winston Churchill.
-Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be significant.-Duane Hanson.
-The Earth has music for those who listen.-William Shakespeare.
-Any good painter paints what he is.-Jackson Pollock.
-The only time I feel free is when I'm painting.-Vincent Van Gogh.
-Art is plagiarism or revolution.-Paul Gauguin.
-Beautiful is always bizarre.-Charles Baudelaire.
-Life does not imitate art, it imitates bad television.-Woody Allen.
-The colors are the facts and the sufferings of light.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
-The task of today's art is to bring chaos to order.-Theodor Adorno.
28-Inspiration exists but it must be found working.-Pablo Picasso.
-Painting is easy when you do not know how to paint, but very difficult when you know.-Edgar Degas.
-Art is a type of disease.-Giacomo Puccini.
-Loving beauty is tasting. Creating beauty is art.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Each production of an artist should be an adventure of his soul.-W. Somerset Maugham.
-Art is the triumph over chaos.-John Cheever.
-It is good to have a taste for many things, that is where true strength lies, anyone who loves a lot yields a lot and can achieve a lot, and what is done with love is well done.-Vincent van Gogh.
-If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live.-Émile Zola.
-And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?.- Vincent van Gogh.
-One eye sees, the other feels.-Paul Klee.
-When the words are not clear, I will focus on photographs. When the images become insufficient, I will be content with the silence.-Ansel Adams
-Nothing can heal the soul, but the senses, just as nothing can heal the senses if it is not soul.-Oscar Wilde.
-You don't just take a picture with a camera. After the act of photography are all the images you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have listened to, the people you have loved.-Ansel Adams.
-The first error of art is to assume that it is serious.-Lester Bangs.
-Each portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the model.-Oscar Wilde.
-Nature is a haunted house, but art is a house that tries to be enchanted.-Emily Dickinson.
35-The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.-Anton Chekhov.
-One cannot have dominion less or greater than the domain of oneself.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-You do not take a photograph, you do.-Ansel Adams.
-The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding oneself.-Leonardo da Vinci.
-Art is only for those who are willing to submit to the effort necessary to understand it.-Flannery O'Connor.
-Art is what can get out of the everyday.-Andy Warhol.
-The imagination rules the world.-Napoléon Bonaparte.
-Art must mitigate the disturbed and disturb the pleasant.-Banksy.
-The paint is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.-Pablo Picasso.
-The need to destroy is also a creative impulse.-Mikhail Bakunin.
-Music produces a kind of pleasure that human nature cannot snub.-Confucius.
-Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line at some point.-GK Chesterton.
-Life is a blank canvas, and you have to throw all the paint on it.-Danny Kaye.
-Art is to comfort those who are broken by life.-Vincent van Gogh.
-Your first 10,000 photographs are the ugliest.-Henri Cartier-Bresson.
-A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense.-Ansel Adams.
-Love the art you have inside, not you making art.-Konstantín Stanislavski.
-Everyone knows that art is not true. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that we are given to understand.-Pablo Picasso.
-The artist must know the way by which he can convince others of the veracity of his lies.-Pablo Picasso.
-For art to exist, for there to be any type of aesthetic activity or perception, it is essential that there be a certain physiological condition: intoxication.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.-Woody Allen.
-The dream leads us to dream and there is no end to the illusion. Life is like a train of moods or like a pearl necklace.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Without art, the harshness of reality would make the world unbearable.-George Bernard Shaw.
-Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, whether acting, writing, painting or living, which is the greatest art of all.-Ray Bradbury.
-Pick up the books, even if you don't think about reading right away. Nothing is more important than an unread message.-John Waters.
-A writer must have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.-Vladimir Nabokov.
-The path of creativity passes near the madhouse and often deviates or ends there.-Ernest Becker.
-Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.-Arthur Schopenhauer.
-The way to create art is to burn and destroy common concepts and replace them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and the heart-Charles Bukowski.
-Poetry is the only place where people can say what their original human mind thinks. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.-Allen Ginsberg.
-An idea is salvation by imagination.-Frank Lloyd Wright.
-What takes hold of the imagination, like beauty, must be true, whether it exists before or not-John Keats.
-Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing, only production.-Raymond Chandler.
-A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs so that one can reach maturity.-George Bernard Shaw.
-Don't think about making art, just do it. Let each one decide if it is good or bad.-Andy Warhol.
-Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.-Oscar Wilde.
-Talent is cheap; Dedication is expensive, it will cost you your life.-Irving Stone.
-Music is the divine way of saying beautiful and poetic things to the heart.- Pablo Casals.
-I don't think it was the pain that made him great, I think his painting brought him the happiness he had.-David Lynch.
-The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.-GK Chesterton.
-All art is surface and symbol. Those who go below the surface, do so at their own risk.-Oscar Wilde.
-Art is not forgetting or letting go. When everything else is gone, you can be rich in the lost.-Rebecca Solnit.
-There is no place for sadness in a house that serves as a museum.- Sappho.
-Evil is done effortlessly, naturally, fatally; Goodness is always the product of some art.-Charles Baudelaire.