Art Quotes

Art is humble. It promotes creativity, keeps us busy and is a sight for those sore and tired eyes. It can be anything ranging from pottery to stitching, different types of painting to embroidery - but whatever it might be, the general idea is the same - creation, rather creating something beautiful. You need not be supremely gifted to do something artistic; all you need is the will and passion and an eye for beauty. If you think you can't paint, try embroidery; if you can't embroider, weave your way through the crochet needle and if nothing works, you can always write for writing is the supreme art. Interested but looking for motivation? Read on for famous art quotes!

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Love Music Nature
Jimmy Carter

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Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
Bob Ross

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
Banksy

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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
School
Damon Wayans, Jr.

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I did go to UCLA for art, but the other option was going to Sarah Lawrence and doing creative writing all the way. So that is part of the reason I love to read so much.
Love
Emily Ratajkowski

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol

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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Beautiful Power Purity Creativity
Salvador Dali

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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Freedom Education
William Morris

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Imagination
Tom Stoppard

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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Nature Soul Artists
Henry Ward Beecher

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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
Artists
Juice Wrld

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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Love Music History
Salma Hayek

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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Money Painting
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.
Pain
Marilyn Manson

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I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
Love Beauty
Lisa Bonet

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Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Courage Hope
Ashton Kutcher

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Sun
Pablo Picasso

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To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.
Love Time
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Good
Barbra Streisand

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The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony Hopkins

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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Zeal Work Rest
Henry James

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Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Water
Groucho Marx

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One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Curiosity Purpose Teachers
Anatole France

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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Nature Creativity Things God
Sir Thomas Browne

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From the moment I got to Hollywood, I've always felt like I never really got to do what I wanted to do. In general, artists feel that you're never really allowed to accomplish what you would like to accomplish because there's just so much of this system that gets in the way; the business gets in the way of the art.
Business
Martin Kove

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Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
Good Greatness Time
David Foster

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My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
Bill Paxton

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I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
People Responsibility
Jodie Foster

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Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
Love
Taika Waititi

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Business Good
Andy Warhol

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Media Food
W. H. Auden

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Wars Fighting Fighting
Sun Tzu

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I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.
People Thinking
Sushant Singh Rajput

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My life is art. Its how I express God.
Life God
Lisa Bonet

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It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
Funny
Grimes

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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Leadership
Tony Blair

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When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
Kevin Smith

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Wisdom Wisdom
William James

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Science State
Paul Klee

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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Greatness
Andre Gide

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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Medicine Doubt Science
William Osler

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Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
Donnie Yen

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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy

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India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.
Life
Pranab Mukherjee

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Wars
Ulysses S. Grant

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Land really is the best art.
Land Nature
Andy Warhol

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For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
Life Smile
Chris Pine

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

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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Subtlety
Will Rogers

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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee

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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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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Nature
Malcolm De Chazal

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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Motivation People
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
Power
Vasyl Lomachenko

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Yes, every venture is always filled with apprehensions. But if we were to conduct ourselves continuously on that aspect, then we would lose the most important reason to be in this profession: to challenge the art of and be part of what is commonly known as our creative instincts.
Amitabh Bachchan

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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Body Work
Leonardo da Vinci

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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Good Business
Andy Warhol

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The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
Blood
Elizabeth Holmes

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Music
Martin Luther

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Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Medicine Humanity Love
Hippocrates

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
People History
William Morris

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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Power Happiness
Henry Ward Beecher

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Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
Truth
Nicolas Cage

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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

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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Life
Alan Rickman

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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Work
Madonna Ciccone

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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Knowledge
Ludwig van Beethoven

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Dying Living
Epicurus

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A picture is a poem without words.
Words
Horace

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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They're not poodles, they're art.
Rachael Leigh Cook

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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
Change
Madonna Ciccone

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

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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
Nothing Trust
Banksy

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Great artists suffer for the people.
Greatness People
Marvin Gaye

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

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Chance Dishonest Sincerity Goodness
Salvador Dali

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Artists
Charles Bukowski

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

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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Value Beauty
Camille Paglia

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A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Love Extramarital Affair Affection Bachelors
Helen Rowland

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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Earth
Pablo Picasso

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I like music because it's the only invisible art form.
Music
Sean Lennon

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Imagination Truth Life
Joseph Conrad

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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Chance Wars
Sun Tzu

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire

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In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Action
Donnie Yen

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If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.
Soul Truth
Ken Jeong

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Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
Culture
Denis Villeneuve

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

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Greatness Life Pain
Lord Byron

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I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
Nature Life
Paulo Coelho

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
Life
William Morris

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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Nature Science Mathematics
Camille Paglia

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