Art Quotes

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.