14,373 Quotes About Art

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. All of life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

Do you think she'll change?""Hope nothing.""Is there a cure?""Only art. Or more love.""I should die of more love.

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.