Art Quotes

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~ Ansel Adams

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

~ Oscar Wilde

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

~ Ansel Adams

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

~ Lester Bangs

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

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 sun

~ Pablo Picasso

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~ Oscar Wilde

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

~ Diane Arbus

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

~ John Lennon

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

~ Pablo Picasso

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

~ Lady Gaga

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

~ Martha Graham

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

~ Emily Dickinson

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

~ Hannah Harrington

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

~ J.d. Salinger

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

~ Anton Chekhov

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

~ Banksy

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

~ J.k. Rowling

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

~ Ansel Adams

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

~ Francis Of Assisi

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

~ Ossie Davis

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others

~ Martha Graham

You use a glass mirror to see your face, you use works of art to see your soul.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

~ Toni Morrison

Imagination governs the world.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

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

~ G.k. Chesterton

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

~ Confucius

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

~ Kate Morton

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

~ Ansel Adams

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

~ Miguel Ruiz

If you know the why, you can live any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

~ Émile Zola

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

~ Nicholas Sparks