Art Quotes

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Task, Proper

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

Reality, Unbearable

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Good, Bad, Honesty

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

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift

Others, Vision, Seeing

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

Freedom, Others, Lives

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

Nature, Soul, Artist

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

Words, Picture, Poem

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

Words, Found, Color

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 Hubbard

Beautiful, Away, Process

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol

Artist, Somebody, Produces

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato

Work, Important, Beginning

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

Hands, Brains, Paints

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

Good, Friend, Company

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

Success, Cannot, Artist

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Long, Enough

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

Giving, Pleasure, Essence

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

Weather, Painting, Critic

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France

Love, Enough, Instinct

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

God, Between, Artist

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

Difficult, Easy, Painting

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

Place, Artist, Earth

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

Sun, Others, Yellow

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