Our Favorite quotes about art…
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
– Aristotle
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
– Gustave Courbet
“Art is the proper task of life.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Creativity takes courage.”
– Henri Matisse
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day... to preserve the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”
– Albert Einstein
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
– Steve Jobs
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity... You simply must do things.”
– Ray Bradbury
“What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach... Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
– Charles Mingus
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“Art awakens the imagination and sets us thinking.”
– Lawrence Alma-Tadema
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Pablo Picasso
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
– Anton Chekhov
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
– Albert Einstein
“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations... Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny...”
– Anton Chekhov
“One eye sees, the other feels.”
– Paul Klee
“I found I could say things with colors and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way...”
– Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
– Chuck Klosterman
“The arts are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“A painting should generate energy from within and without.”
– Norman Bluhm
“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible... It is the emancipation of the mind.”
– Arshile Gorky
“Abstract art is the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need... for felt experience.”
– Robert Motherwell
“It is good to love many things... what is done in love is well done.”
– Vincent van Gogh
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
– Federico Fellini
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
– Oscar Wilde
“All art is a kind of confession... artists are forced, at last, to tell the whole story.”
– James Baldwin
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
– Bertolt Brecht
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms.”
– J.D. Salinger
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali
“In improvisation there are no mistakes.”
– Miles Davis
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
– Edgar Degas
“Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody, when I paint my masterpiece.”
– Bob Dylan
“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera... You bring to it all the music you’ve heard, the people you’ve loved.”
– Ansel Adams
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
– Ansel Adams
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world... I am here to live out loud.”
– Émile Zola
“Most events are inexpressible... and more inexpressible than all else are works of art.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Waking up without art around me would be like waking up without the sun.”
– Jordan Schnitzler