Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

Explore art quotes that celebrate creativity, technique, and the emotion behind making. From classic masters to contemporary voices, these lines illuminate process, purpose, and play. Whether you seek a spark for your studio or a thoughtful caption, find concise reflections on seeing, making, and meaning. Curated to balance imagination with craft, the selections encourage experimentation, patience, and the courage to show your work.

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"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"My curves are not crazy"

Henri Matisse, Artist

Henri Matisse

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"The details are not the details. They make the design"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

Giotto di Bondone, Artist

Giotto di Bondone

"The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

Chris Van Allsburg

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

Constantin Brancusi, Sculptor

Constantin Brancusi

"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

Camille Claudel

"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"

Michael Graves, Architect

Michael Graves

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

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

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"We're actors. We're the opposite of people"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"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, Actress

Barbra Streisand

"Art raises its head where creeds relax"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"I work with nature, although in completely new terms"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

Twyla Tharp

"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick"

Robert Indiana, Artist

Robert Indiana

"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour"

Thom Mayne, Architect

Thom Mayne

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art"

Claude Debussy, Composer

Claude Debussy

"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience"

Bridget Riley, Artist

Bridget Riley

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