Art Quotes

Welcome to the world of art quotes! Here you will certainly find a collection of motivating and also provocative quotes from a few of the world's most popular artists. Whether you're seeking a quote to encourage you in your creative undertakings, or just wish to be motivated by the words of wonderful artists, you'll locate something here to trigger your creative imagination. Discover our collection of quotes from painters, sculptors, professional photographers, as well as a lot more, and find the excellent quote to share your creative vision.
Small: The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease
Voltaire
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"
Voltaire, Writer
Small: Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths
"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"
Edgar A. Shoaff
Small: Errors are not in the art but in the artificers
Isaac Newton
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
Small: Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage
H. L. Mencken
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
Small: Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
Small: Art raises its head where creeds relax
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art raises its head where creeds relax"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Small: Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: The true art of memory is the art of attention
Samuel Johnson
"The true art of memory is the art of attention"
Samuel Johnson, Author
Small: The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook
William James
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook"
William James, Philosopher
Small: Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better
Andre Gide
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"
Andre Gide, Novelist
Small: Art is the only way to run away without leaving home
Twyla Tharp
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"
Twyla Tharp, Dancer
Small: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"
Jacques Barzun, Educator
Small: The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you
Oscar Wilde
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Small: The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and
Adolf Hitler
"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention"
Adolf Hitler, Criminal
Small: The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in ma
Bryant H. McGill
"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
Small: I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an
"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid"
Jonathan Lethem, Writer
Small: Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Small: He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
Small: True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist
Albert Einstein
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth
Pablo Picasso
"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
Small: Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they dont have for something they dont need
Will Rogers
"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"
Will Rogers, Actor
Small: It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall its a painting, and if you can walk around it i
Tom Stoppard
"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
Small: Art is never finished, only abandoned
Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is never finished, only abandoned"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
Small: Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, li
Barbara Januszkiewicz
"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Small: Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evol
Angela Carter
"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us"
Angela Carter, Novelist
Small: For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispe
Friedrich Nietzsche
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Small: It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine
"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
Small: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellen
Aristotle
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Small: Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy
Isaac Newton
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"
Isaac Newton, Mathematician
Small: I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences
"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences"
Jim Morrison, Musician
Small: The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as ha
Ulysses S. Grant
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
Small: The art of victory is learned in defeat
Simon Bolivar
"The art of victory is learned in defeat"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
Small: A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
Small: Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the
Emil Nolde
"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"
Emil Nolde, Artist
Small: We have art in order not to die of the truth
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art in order not to die of the truth"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
Small: Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error a
Publilius Syrus
"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
Small: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance
Aristotle
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"
Aristotle, Philosopher
Small: A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conques
Benjamin Disraeli
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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