“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily
life off our souls.”
-Pablo Picasso
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Art is the proper task of life.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique
temperament.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving
home.”
-Twyla Tharp
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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is
gratitude.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
-Elbert Hubbard
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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that
the world has known.”
-Oscar Wilde
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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to
others.”
-Jonathan Swift
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“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
-Anatole France
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“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is
art.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
-Scott Adams
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves
at the same time.”
-Thomas Merton
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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving
pleasure.”
-Dale Carnegie
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“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
-Theodor Adorno
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,
and the less the artist does the better.”
-Andre Gide
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“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
-Igor Stravinsky
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“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
-Charles Horton Cooley
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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
-Paul Klee
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“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is
to make beautiful art.”
-Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
-Quintilian
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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the
seeking for ideal truth.”
-John Ruskin
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“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to
stay at home.”
-Gwendolyn Brooks
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the
gift is nothing without work.”
-Emile Zola
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“Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.”
-Malcolm de Chazal
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“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the
actual world.”
-George Santayana
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“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
-Albert Ellis
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“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
-Henry A. Kissinger
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to
overlook.”
-William James
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“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
-Helen Hayes
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“Artists themselves are not confined, but their
output is.”
-Robert Smithson
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“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
-Carroll O'Connor
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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with
yesterday.”
-Don Marquis
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“Art is science made clear.”
-Wilson Mizner
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
-John W. Gardner
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“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the
artist.”
-Novalis
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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
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“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
-Friedrich Schiller
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
-Pablo Picasso
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