14,373 Quotes About Art

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Meditation trains our inner world. It is the art of creating a space between your breath and thoughts, a space that allows you to choose your own response. That allows us to overcome stimuli and reactions, so we can choose who we want to be, moment to moment.

Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.