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ART QUOTES

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.- A. Einstein

Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes it visible.- Paul Klee

Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.- Karl Kraus

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: 'I am here to live out loud'.- Emile Zola

Art is anything you can get away with.- Marshall McLuhun

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.- Pablo Picasso

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

The scholar seeks, the artist finds.- Andre Gide

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. Its a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.- Roy Lichtenstein

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.- Clement Greenberg

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.- H.L. Mencken

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso

(Ars longa, vita brevis) Art is long. Life is short.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.- Pablo Picasso

Art is either plagarism or revolution.- Paul Gauguin

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.- Ned Rorem

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

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.- Vincent van Gogh

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.- Delsarte

Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic.- Jean Sibelius

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.- Sir Joshua Reynolds

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, - sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.- Bulwer

As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never percieved before.- Chateaubriand

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.- Jean Cocteau

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.- Sir Joshua Reynolds

The object of art is to give life a shape.- Jean Anouilh

We live in a rainbow of chaos.- Paul Cezanne

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.- Oscar Wilde

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.- Henry S. Haskins

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Children, like animals, use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.- Eudora Welty

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.- Modest Mussorgsky

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.- Pablo Picasso

The more horrifing the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.- Paul Klee

Art is man's nature, nature is God's art.- P.J. Bailey

I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.- Georgia O'Keefe

I always suspect an artist who is sucessful before he is dead.- John Murray Gibbon

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.- Mark Twain

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art.- Lee Simonson

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they are or people might think we're stupid.- Jules Feiffer

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.- Joseph Joubert

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.- Joan Miro

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.- Ansel Adams

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