14,373 Quotes About Art

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.