Art Quotes

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

True, Creative, Artist

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

Cannot, Means, Within

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

Greatest, Person, Artist

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

Aim, Appearance, Inward

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

Work, Unique, Result

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

Life, Daily, Off

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

Great, Artist, Cease

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

Sheep, Innovation, Tradition

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artist, Amateur

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

Great, Beautiful, Gratitude

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

Known, Intense, Mode

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

Time, Find, Same

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

Heart, Hand, Imagine

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Far, Imitates

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

Work, Guilty, Conscience

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Vision, Artist, Labor

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

Step, Toward, Obvious

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

Yourself, Mistakes, Creativity

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Words, Worth, Picture

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.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Write

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Home, Leaving, Away

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

Alone, Loneliness, Artist

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

Truth, Die, Order

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us