Art Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

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

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

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

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.