Art Quotes

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

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

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art is science made clear.

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.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

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

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.