557 Art quotes

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Space is the breath of art.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

A picture is a poem without words.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The temple of art is built in words.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Art is what you can get away with.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

Baking is both an art and a science.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Every artist was first an amateur.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Nature is the art of God.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Art depends on luck and talent.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The value of art is in the observer.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Great artists suffer for the people.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Art is the path to being spiritual.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Where thou art, that is home.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Photographing a cake can be art.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Every good painter paints what he is.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

An empty canvas is full.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

My painting does not come from the easel.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Art is born of humiliation.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Life is short, the art long.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

In art the best is good enough.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I paint with shapes.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Politics is the art of the next best.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

One eye sees, the other feels.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

They're not poodles, they're art.

Art isn't complete until it's shared.

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

What is art but a way of seeing?

My kids are my greatest piece of art.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

The best artists know what to leave out.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

I will preach with my brush.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Art is science made clear.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Paint the essential character of things.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Art must take reality by surprise.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

I am not strong on perfection.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.