Art Quotes

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
Abraham Maslow

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
Susan Sontag


A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuthan

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini

All art is immortal.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Oscar Wilde
De Profundis.

An art can only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their bread by it.
Samuel Butler

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

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Ambroise Valery

And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, "Oh, the pictures I might have made."
Vincent Van Gogh

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran

Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
Paul Klee

Art for art's sake.
Dante Alighieri

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
Andre Maurois

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is like soup. There will be some vegetables you don't like but as long as you get some soup down you it doesn't matter.
George Wyllie, on modern art
Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
Georges Braque

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Vladimir Mayakovsky

Art is not a study of positive reality; it is a search for ideal truth.
George Sand

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Green Hubbard

Art is significant deformity.
Stanley Fry

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 elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.
John F. Kennedy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known.
Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism.

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

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

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately. You rape it.
Edgar Degas

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore

Art never expresses anything but itself.
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying.

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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Henry Miller

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.
Pablo Picasso

As for the degenerate artists, I forbid them to force their so-called experiences upon the public. If they do see fields blue, they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If the only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals, and should go to prison. I will purge the nation of them.
Adolf Hitler

As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
Calvin and Hobbes

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
Andy Warhol

But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Dilbert, created by Scott Adams

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.
Julian Barnes

Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?
Michelangelo
Explaining why the Virgin Mary in the Pietà looks so young.

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
William W. Woollcott

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent

Fairy-tales interest me as a manifestation of pure art, perhaps the very first instance of art detaching itself from real life, and also because - like pure art - they enhance reality, remaking it in their own likeness, separating good from evil, and bringing all fears and terrors to a happy conclusion.
Abran Tertz
A Voice from the Chorus.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Pablo Picasso

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.
John Ruskin

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

He will lie even when it is inconvenient, the sign of the true artist.
Gore Vidal
Two Sisters.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.
Michelangelo
To his biographer Condivi.

I already have a wife who is too much for me; she is my art, and my works are my children.
Michelangelo
On why he hadn't married, quoted in his complete poems and selected letters.

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

I am still learning.
Michelangelo

I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child . . . I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than that. I have no rules and no methods; anyone can look at my materials or watch how I paint - he will see that I have no secrets.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life - the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.
Vincent Van Gogh

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Auguste Rodin

I do not know whether he draws a line himself. But I assume that his is the direction…It makes Disney the most significant figure in graphic art since Leonardo.
Sir David Low
On Walt Disney.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Henri Matisse

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
Pablo Picasso

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer too, and the eye of the storm. I think art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate", any more than I "like". I love or I hate.
Pablo Picasso

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci

I live shut up here, like the doughy middle inside the bread crust, poor and all alone, like a genie shut up inside a bottle.
Michelangelo
From a poem written by him.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
Grandma Moses

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol

I think that 95 percent of what passes for art in this world is complete and utter shit. And 4 of the other 5 percent is shit with an asterisk. But oh, that 1 percent makes you proud to be a human, doesn't it?
Dennis Miller

I told Your Holiness that painting is not my art; what I have done is spoiled.
Michelangelo
Telling the Pope that the painting of the Sistine Chapel had gone wrong.

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.
Michelangelo
On completing ceiling of Sistine Chapel.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Sir Peter Ustinov

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses

If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.
Jacqueline Roque
Mrs. Pablo Picasso (wife of Pablo Picasso).

If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!
Harry S. Truman

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint - and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Living.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol

In the upper and the lower churches of St. Francis, Giotto and Cimabue showed that art had once worshipped something other than itself.
Aldous Huxley

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray.

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual experience.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.

It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet, is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on . . . the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?
Ray Kroc

Let it be enough for you to have bread and live virtuously and poorly like Christ, as I do here. I live meanly and don't bother about life or honor... and I live with the greatest toil and a thousand worries. It is now about 15 years since I had a happy hour.
Michelangelo
From a letter to his father, October 1512 as he finishes the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of Art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible, truer than the truth.
Jean Anouilh

Life isn't a support-system for art. It's the other way around.
Stephen King

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

My inspiration is ART...Because without ART we would just be stuck with reality.
Daniel R. Lynch
www.dansinspiration.com

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri

Ninety per cent of the art I buy will probably be worthless in ten years time.
Charles Saatchi

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

No, I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.
James McNeill Whistler
Replying to the question: For two days' labor, you ask two hundred guineas?

No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
George Santayana

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
Paul Gauguin

Now I as a painter shall never amount to anything important, I am absolutely sure of it.
Vincent Van Gogh

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
Henri de Montherlant

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Edgar Degas

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
Stanley Spencer

Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

People don't want art, they want football.
Ulrich Ruckriem

Picasso is Spanish, I am too. Picasso is a genius, I am too. Picasso will be seventy-two and I am about forty-eight. Picasso is known in every country of the world; so am I. Picasso is a Communist. I am not.
Salvador Dali

Public art is art that the public can't avoid.
George Wyllie

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Percy Wynham Lewis

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She is like most artists; she is all style without any sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
The Nightingale and the Rose.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects suck as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
Artist Descending a Staircase.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
William Butler Yeats

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

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

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

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

The artist may not be a judge of his characters, only a dispassionate witness.
Anton Chekhov

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
Gustave Flaubert

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G. K. Chesterton

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The beautiful doesn't matter to me.
Pablo Picasso

The best artist has that thought alone
Which is contained within the marble shell;
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell
To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence

The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Sir Humphry Davy
His opinion of the art galleries in Paris.

The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh

The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Lionel Trilling

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or dishonest tradesman.
Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
On why he still painted although he had arthritis of his hands.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Green Hubbard

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things…those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
John Constable

The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems.
Andy Warhol

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw

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

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor.
Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse

They have degraded the visible arts into the obvious arts, and the one things not worth looking at is the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.

Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Auguste Rodin

True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance,
'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence,
The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense.
Alexander Pope

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh . . . now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist."
Edgar Allan Poe

What a great artist dies with me.
Nero

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he's a poet or even, if he's a boxer, only some muscles? Quite the contrary, he is at the same time a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image.
Pablo Picasso

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse

What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.
Tom Stoppard
Travesties.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter, and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh

What Raphael knew of art he learned from me.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo told his biographer Condivi that Raphael copied his work.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

When I was the age of these children could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pablo Picasso

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.
Henri Matisse

Why drag in Velasquez?
James McNeill Whistler
To a lady who said the two greatest painters were himself and Velasquez.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

You do something, and then somebody else comes along and does it pretty.
Pablo Picasso

You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts.
Voltaire

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw