Art is the creative skill and imagination of human beings through which a person expresses his emotion and efficiency. The below inspiring art quotes will tell you about the greatness of art so that you can discover your inner skill and reveal it to the world.
According to Pablo Picasso, art is the lie that enables us to make sense of the truth. This is an imagination that we can give a reality. Art shapes our imagination. These inspiring creative art quotes will help you to know that art makes this world beautiful. The beautiful building or any architecture we see around us is the result of our creative art. Apart from these inspiring art quotes, you can also read our other motivational quotes on attraction, famous cooperation quotes, understanding others’ quotes, and team spirit quotes.
Let’s read the best inspiring art quotes to turn your imagination into reality.
1. “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.” ― Dylan Thomas
2. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams
3. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
4. “A picture is a poem without words.” ― Horace
5. “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” ― Vladimir Nabokov
6. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ― James Whistler
7. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” ― Andy Warhol
8. “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.” ― Langston Hughes
9. “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” ― J.D. Salinger
10. “An idea is a salvation by imagination.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright
11. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker
12. “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, but it also makes us move.” ― Ossie Davis
13. “Art and love are the same things: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman
14. “Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.” ― Andre Gide
15. “Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.” ― Egon Schiele
16. “Art consists of limitations. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” ― Gilbert K. Chesterton
17. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton
18. “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” ― Paul Cezanne
19. “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.” ― Jean Cocteau
20. “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” ― Paul Gauguin
21. “Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” ― Frank Zappa
22. “Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.” ― Malcolm de Chazal
23. “Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” ― Leo Tolstoy
24. “Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” ― John Ruskin
25. “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” ― Elbert Hubbard
26. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ― Edgar Degas
27. “Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” ― Harry S Truman
28. “Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
29. “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” ― Amy Lowell
30. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ― Pablo Picasso
31. “Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” ― Claude Debussy
32. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” ― Oscar Wilde
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33. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ― Oscar Wilde
34. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” ― Twyla Tharp
35. “Art is the proper task of life.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
36. “Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.” ― Ani DiFranco
37. “Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh
38. “Art is what you can get away with.” ― Andy Warhol
39. “Art must take reality by surprise.” ― Francoise Sagan
40. “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ― Flannery O’Connor
41. “Art resides in the quality of doing, the process is not magic.” ― Charles Eames
42. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ― Cesar A. Cruz
43. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso
44. “Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson
45. “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” ― Stephen Sondheim
46. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” ― G.K. Chesterton
47. “Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott
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48. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ― Scott Adams
49. “Creativity is an act of defiance.” ― Twyla Tharp
50. “Creativity takes courage.” ― Henri Matisse
51. “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” ― Thomas Wolfe
52. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” ― Alice Walker
53. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” ― Andy Warhol
54. “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
55. “Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.” ― Pierre Bonnard
56. “Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” ― Salvador Dali
57. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
58. “Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz
59. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ― Oscar Wilde
60. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
61. “God is really only 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
62. “Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.” ― Robert Quillen
63. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
64. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe
65. “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.” ― Roy Lichtenstein
66. “I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
67. “If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.” ― Arne Jacobsen
68. “If one loves Art at all, one must love it beyond all other things in the world.” ― Oscar Wilde
69. “If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” ― Honore de Balzac
70. “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola
71. “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
72. “Imagination governs the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
73. “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” ― Susan Sontag
74. “It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.” ― John Irving
75. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso
76. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” ― Stella Adler
77. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” ― Woody Allen
78. “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye
79. “Love the art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” ― Constantin Stanislavski
80. “Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.” ― Freddie Mercury
81. “Music is an outburst of the soul.” ― Frederick Delius
82. “Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” ― Pablo Casals
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83. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ― Pablo Picasso
84. “Painting and writing are solitary arts.” ― Conrad Hall
85. “Painting is by nature a luminous language.” ― Robert Delaunay
86. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
87. “Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” ― Jackson Pollock
88. “Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.” ― Balthus
89. “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” ― Dorothea Lange
90. “Self-motivation is an art, one should practice every now and then!” ― Somya Kedia
91. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle
92. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” ― Walt Whitman
93. “The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.” ― Kate Chopin
94. “The artist’s vocation is to send light into the human heart.” ― George Sand
95. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso
96. “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” ― Dale Carnegie
97. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
98. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” ― Lester Bangs
99. “The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” ― Abraham Lincoln
100. “The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott
101. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” ― Francis Bacon
102. “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
103. “The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” ― Jerzy Kosinski
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104. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” ― Pablo Picasso
105. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” ― Michelangelo
106. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ― Pablo Picasso
107. “There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do.” ― William A. Pasmore
108. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward, you can remove all traces of reality.” ― Pablo Picasso
109. “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ― Henry David Thoreau
110. “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
111. “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” ― Jonathan Swift
112. “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given to us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” ― Pablo Picasso
113. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
114. “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” ― Pablo Picasso
115. “When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.” ― Edward Steichen
116. “Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” ― George Bernard Shaw
117. “Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.” ― Albert Camus
118. “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” ― Winston Churchill
119. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ― Ansel Adams
120. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” ― George Bernard Shaw
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