14,373 Quotes About Art

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life.

Artistic license was what she had heard it called, but in her eyes it was nothing more than artistic laziness.

[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.