Art Quotes

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

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

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

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

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

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

What is art but a way of seeing?

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

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

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

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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

All good art is an indiscretion.

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

Art depends on luck and talent.

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

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

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

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.