14,373 Quotes About Art

My work exhibits both the glories and pitfalls of the autodidact; I let it emerge naturally and I do not force myself to be what I am not.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

We add more soul to this universe with our art!

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

Your perception is not my reality.