Art Quotes

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.