Art Quotes

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

In art the best is good enough.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.