More Art Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is another collation of art quotations and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
– Pablo Picasso

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
– Pablo Picasso

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzche

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
– Albert Einstein

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
– Emile Zola

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
– Anais Nin

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
– Edgar Degas

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
– C.S. Lewis

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
– Goethe

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
– Oscar Wilde

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
– Rich Riordan

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.”
– Ankit Sahal

“Creativity takes courage. ”
– Henri Matisse

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
– Pablo Picasso

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
– John Keats

“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ”
– Lady Gaga

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
– Pablo Picasso

“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.”
– John Lennon

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
– Yann Martel

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
– Dylan Thomas

“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson

“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
– Pablo Picasso

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
– J.D. Salinger

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
– Chuck Klosterman

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
– Alice Walker

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