Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Pablo Picasso
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Pablo Picasso
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. Alexander Pope
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. Marcel Proust
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Marcel Proust
The perfection of art is to conceal art. Edgar Quinet
The perfection of art is to conceal art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Edgar Quinet
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. Ad Reinhardt
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Ad Reinhardt
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] Pierre Auguste Renoir
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Pierre Auguste Renoir
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. Laura Riding
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Laura Riding
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it? Harold Rosenberg
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Harold Rosenberg
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. George Sand
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by George Sand
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by George Santayana
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. Robert Schumann
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Robert Schumann
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. Robert Schumann
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Robert Schumann
All art is an imitation of nature. Seneca
All art is an imitation of nature.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Seneca
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream] William Shakespeare
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]Arts and ArtistsQuotations by William Shakespeare
O, had I but followed the arts! William Shakespeare
O, had I but followed the arts!Arts and ArtistsQuotations by William Shakespeare
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. George Bernard Shaw
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by George Bernard Shaw
Art is the signature of civilizations. Beverly Sills
Art is the signature of civilizations.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Beverly Sills
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. Logan Pearsall Smith
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Logan Pearsall Smith
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Rabindranath Tagore
Art — the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised. James Thurber
Art — the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by James Thurber
If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot! Harry S Truman
If that’s art, I’m a Hottentot!Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Harry S Truman
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. Kenneth Tynan
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Kenneth Tynan
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Source Unknown
Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Source Unknown
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. Source Unknown
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Source Unknown
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. John Updike
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by John Updike
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. Andrei Voznesensky
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Andrei Voznesensky
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. Andy Warhol
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Andy Warhol
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Simone Weil
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Simone Weil
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. Rebecca West
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Rebecca West
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. Oscar Wilde
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. Oscar Wilde
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. Oscar Wilde
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. Robert Wilson
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Robert Wilson
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. Winkelmann
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Winkelmann
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave. Thomas Wolfe
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Thomas Wolfe
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. George E. Woodberry
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by George E. Woodberry