14,373 Quotes About Art

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

Wherever art appears, life blooms.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.