14,373 Quotes About Art

For the artist, there is no insignificant thing.

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

El arte es un don que repara el alma de los fracasos y sin sabores. Nos alienta a cumplir la utopía a la que fuimos destinados.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

Little by little, brushstrokes spell out my story on canvas.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.