Art Quotes

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You's have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you's go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you.

~ Austin Kleon

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

~ James Rozoff

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented them, in sleepless nights, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthmas, epilepsies, and the fear of death, which is worse than all the rest.

~ Marcel Proust

It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature – form a family of related, if largely autonomous, practices: they all work through the aesthetic, all address the imagination, and all are concerned with the symbolic embodiment of human meaning.

~ Peter Abbs

But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

~ Christopher Paolini

God design of you is divine act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When life, inspiration, and pen meet.

~ Valdas Partee

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as signposts declaring what it is to be fully human. They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

~ Ron Brackin

Art fuels the fire inside me.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.

~ August Rush

Art doesn’t bare itself to just anyone, but to believers called artists.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Masochists hold on to broken people. Artists hold on to broken memories.

~ Dominic Riccitello

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

~ Becky Chambers

Self-destruction is an art, cursed are the exponents.

~ Anurag Shourie

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

~ Mark Rothko

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

~ Stefan Bachmann

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

~ Théophile Gautier

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

She must disappear for a time from the human surface,And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

~ David Foenkinos

Words do not always need a destination.We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.Running around headless in the vague zone.And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

~ David Foenkinos

Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

~ Neal Shusterman

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

~ Philip Pullman

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

~ Jessie Burton

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.

~ Ron Brackin

Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought about between shorter bursts of thinking about the things everyone thought about: sex and food and sleep and friends and money and fame. But somewhere inside you, whether you were making out with someone in a bar or having dinner with your friends, was always your canvas, its shapes and possibilities floating embryonically behind your pupils.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

~ A.e. Samaan

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

~ Edward Bond

I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.

~ Gabor Gürtler