Art Quotes

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

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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

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

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

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

A picture is a poem without words.

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

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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

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

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

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