Quotations About Art
Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch
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The sadness of the incomplete--the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E.M. Forster
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso