Art Quotes

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis

Work, Artist, Belongs

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

Great, Artists, Steal

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola

Doubt, Artist, Value

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

Person, Words, Interested

My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Stephen Sondheim

Order, Chaos, Bring

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

Making, Advantage, Drawing

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian

Perfection, Conceal

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller

Nature, Men, Hand

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

Human, Soul, Misery

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux

Against, Fate, Revolt

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Powerful, Big, Pictures

Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Freedom, Daughter

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Robert Motherwell

Life, Wherever, Appears

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson

Money, Once, Since

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

Off, Whatever, Choose

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese

Time, Far, Artist

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen

Artist, Paper, Piece

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty

Beauty, Human, Real

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson

Enemy, Though, Necessary

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein

Nothing, Pretend

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

Work, Time, Give

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando

Thinking, Creative, Process

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

May, Through, Dark

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us