14,373 Quotes About Art

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

A pianist is a painter of music

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly applied that it might snap off and ruin someone's carpet, rather than realizing that you'd made color itself tactile.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner version which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.