14,373 Quotes About Art

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand—that is art.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I shut my eyes in order to see.