Famous Quotations on Art
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Enjoy the following compilation of famous artists speaking on art.
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“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” — Hedy Lamarr
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” — George Edward Moore
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” — Michelangelo
“A picture is a poem without words.” — Horace
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.” — Henry Moore
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” — Gertrude Stein
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.” — Marshall McLuhan
“All art is but imitation of nature.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” — Oscar Wilde
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” — George Santayana
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” — Andy Warhol
“Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” — Andre Gide
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” — Kahlil Gibran
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” — John Ruskin
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” — Elbert Hubbard
“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 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 stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” — Theodore Dreiser

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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Pablo Picasso
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” — Stephen Sondheim
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.” — Gustave Flaubert
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” — Tom Wolfe
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.” — Henri Matisse
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” — Salvador Dali
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.” — Edward Steichen
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” — Francis Bacon
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin
“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” — Pablo Picasso
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” — Marc Chagall
“I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.” — Bette Midler
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” — Auguste Rodin
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.” — Helen Hayes
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” — Henri Matisse
“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” — Francis Ford Coppola
“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
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