Famous art quotations

   Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
 ~ by Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

   Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
 ~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Art disturbs, science reassures.
 ~ by Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

   Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
 ~ by Ben Jonson

   A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
 ~ by Oscar Wilde

   Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.
 ~ by Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

   The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
 ~ by Aristotle

   Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
 ~ by Aaron Howard

   One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
 ~ by Mark Stevens

   A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
 ~ by George Moore

   An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
 ~ by James McNeill Whistler

   A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
 ~ by Albert Camus

   The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
 ~ by André Malraux

   Art is pictures straight from the heart.
 ~ by Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

   To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
 ~ by E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

   It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
 ~ by Kojiro Tomita

   There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
 ~ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
 ~ by Twyla Tharp

   As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
 ~ by Pablo Picasso

   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.
 ~ by William Faulkner

   But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.
 ~ by The New Yorker

   Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
 ~ by Pablo Picasso

   The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
 ~ by T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

   I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
 ~ by Henri Matisse

   Art is spirituality in drag.
 ~ by Jennifer Yane



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