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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Henri Matisse
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Robert Delaunay
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman
Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Gustave Flaubert
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Tom Wolfe
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Henry Ellis
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Louis Kahn
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Auguste Rodin
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein
I paint with shapes.
Alexander Calder
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore de Balzac
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
