14,373 Quotes About Art

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Personality cults by contemporary painters infuriate me. One must seek the opposite, fade away more every day, and find exactingness only in the act of painting, and always forget oneself.

Whatever you do in life, you can always do it in an artistic way!

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.