“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” – Oscar Wilde
“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance” – Aristotle
“Bad artists always admire each other’s work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life …
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.” – Augustus Saint-Gaudens
“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul” – Mahatma Gandhi
“And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.” – Kate …
“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” – Abraham …
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” – Oscar Wilde
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery” – Francis Bacon Sr.
“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection …
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere …
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.” – William Blake
“Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct–it’s an art.” – Mae West
“Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” – Roy Adzak
“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work” – …
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” – John W. Gardner
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The secret of life is in art.” – Oscar Wilde
“We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as …
“o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.” – …
“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde
“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are …
“People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The …
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul” – George Bernard Shaw
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination” – Albert Einstein
“It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from …
“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art” – Konstantin Stanislavsky
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.” …
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.” – Havelock Ellis
“Bad artists always admire each others work.” – Oscar Wilde