Quotes about Art

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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ― Pablo Picasso

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ― Leonardo da Vinci

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream." ― Vincent Van Gogh

"Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." ― Chuck Klosterman

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." ― Thomas Merton

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ― Edgar Degas

"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search." ― Rick Riordan

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious." ― Oscar Wilde

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can." ― Danny Kaye

"Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start." ― Jason Mraz

"Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing." ― Meg Cabot

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." ― Henry Ward Beecher

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." ― Robert Henri

 "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." ― Cesar A. Cruz

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else." ― Donald Ervin Knuth

"Art never comes from happiness." ― Chuck Palahniuk

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. " ― Vladimir Nabokov

"There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love." ― W.H. Auden

"When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift." ― Justina Chen




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