| There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
| First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) |
| The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle |
| Art happens. No hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. James A. M. Whistler |
| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher |
| It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling |
| Apparently one impression that we are making...is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. The fact that the people who create are good workers tends to be lost. Abraham Maslow |
| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." André Gide |
| Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds?" Pablo Picasso |
| "I paint what I like, when I like, and where I like." David Hockney |
| Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth."—Robert Henri |
| I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. - George Bernard Shaw |
| A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. - George Bernard Shaw |
| A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. - George Bernard Shaw |
| Bad artists always admire each others work. - Oscar Wilde |
| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola |
It is the glory and good of Art,
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. - Robert Browning |
| A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp, referring to abstract art |
| Drawing is the true test of art. - J.A.D. Ingres |
| Art is power. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would faint. - Mrs. Pablo Picasso |
| Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. [Ger., Die Kunst ist zwar nicht das Brod, aber der Wein des Lebens.] - Jean Paul Richter |
| Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. - George Bernard Shaw |
| I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. - Vincent van Gogh |
| If you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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