Quotes about Art

“Layer by layer art strips life bare.”

“I consider tragedy the highest form of art.”

“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”

“It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”

“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?”

“It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”

“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”

“I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.”

“The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.”

“African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.”

“Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.”

“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”

“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”