14,373 Quotes About Art

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.

In art, it is the perspective of the individual that counts.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves