14,373 Quotes About Art

A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face. For this reason the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life.

Trust me: if it doesn’t match: it will clash! Focusing on a stunning complimentary color instead of a close-but-not-quite-right one is one of the most helpful contributions you can make to the design.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.

Some artists are criticised, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the one who are remembered.