Discover a collection of uplifting and powerful quotes about art that will inspire your creative soul. Explore the profound wisdom of renowned artists and thinkers in these Quotes about Art.
Art is a timeless expression of human creativity and emotion, capturing the essence of life in vivid colors and intricate forms. In this curated selection of Quotes about Art, iconic figures like Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dalí share their profound insights on the transformative power of artistic expression. Let these words resonate with you as you delve into the boundless world of creativity and imagination.
1. “Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. “Let your imagination soar and your knowledge expand beyond any horizon or boundary you had previously imagined.”
3. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James
4. “The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.”
Vladimir Nabokov
5. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
6. “Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce.'”
7. “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
William Faulkner
8. “Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.”
Carolina Herrera
9. “I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
10. “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh
11. “What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
Willa Cather
12. “Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
Salvador Dalí
13. “Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
Karl Lagerfeld
14. “Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15. “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
Tim Burton
16. “To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
Pablo Picasso
17. “We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.”
Irving Stone
18. “A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.”
Salvador Dalí
19. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
G.K. Chesterton
20. “The sandcastles of our reality will crumble when the tides of our imagination wash over them.”
21. “Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham
22. “What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”
Vincent van Gogh
23. “Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.”
Madeleine L'Engle
24. “You know it's ART, when the check clears.”
Andy Warhol
25. “Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.”
Al Hirschfeld
26. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
Muhammad Ali
27. “Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.”
Louise Bourgeois
28. “Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.”
Yayoi Kusama
29. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Andy Warhol
30. “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...”
John Keats
31. “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
Agnes Martin
32. “Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?”
Virginia Woolf
33. “Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of.”
34. “If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
Alice Walker
35. “An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.”
Ayn Rand
36. “Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.”
Oscar Wilde
37. “Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
Peter O'Toole
38. “The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Jerzy Kosinski
39. “I work like a gardener.”
Joan Miro
40. “Art translates human souls. Each passing eon's public display of sophisticated hieroglyphics cast a unique depiction upon the rudimentary art of survival.”
41. “To be an artist is to believe in life.”
Henry Moore
42. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
Stella Adler
43. “ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough—see point one.”
Douglas Adams
44. “The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
Andy Warhol
45. “A picture is a voiceless poem, a poem is a vocal picture.”
46. “Surround yourself with colors and art that uplift your spirit.”
47. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
Coco Chanel
48. “Talk to a docent at your favorite museum. They often have wonderful, inspiring stories to tell about the art hanging on the walls.”
49. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
Karl Lagerfeld
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