Art Quotes

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

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.

Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

What is art but a way of seeing?

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.

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.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

All art is but imitation of nature.