Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"To create meaningful art, one must be willing to expose one's soul to the world."Edvard Munch
"Color is a power which directly influences the soul. I have spent my life exploring this truth."Edvard Munch
"The modern artist must be a translator of inner emotional landscapes."Edvard Munch
"I paint not what I see, but what I feel seeing it."Edvard Munch
"I have painted the same motifs repeatedly because each time I discover something new about myself."Edvard Munch
"The greatest artistic achievement is to make the invisible visible."Edvard Munch
"I paint the emotions of the human condition, not merely the human form."Edvard Munch
"The artist must be willing to bleed for their work. Anything less is a betrayal of the craft."Edvard Munch
"The artist who creates without feeling is like a musician who plays without hearing."Edvard Munch
"I paint the trembling of the human soul at the threshold of the eternal."Edvard Munch
"Every shadow in my paintings contains a story of loss, longing, and redemption."Edvard Munch
"The modern world demands new forms of expression. The old ways are dead."Edvard Munch
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."Salvador Dalí
"The only way to immortality is through art."Salvador Dalí
"Avant-garde supposed to mean ahead of the guards of the old values."Salvador Dalí
"Theatre is mystery, illusion, and magic."Salvador Dalí
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."Salvador Dalí
"Picasso is a good painter, but he's never really said anything new about the world."Salvador Dalí
"I would like to create the absolute masterpiece that would make all other art forms jealous."Salvador Dalí
"The metamorphosis of the conscious into the unconscious is what I paint."Salvador Dalí
"I create art out of the void; it springs from nowhere and everywhere."Salvador Dalí
"The highest achievement of human beings is to create art that transcends human understanding."Salvador Dalí
"Art is what you can get away with."Andy Warhol
"I like to watch things. And I like things that I like to watch."Andy Warhol
"I think that if you can see the point, it's not art."Andy Warhol
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."Andy Warhol
"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums."Andy Warhol
"I paint objects as I see them, not as they appear."Andy Warhol
"I'm afraid of catching feelings, so I just paint them instead."Andy Warhol
"In my art I try to be sincere, which is very difficult."Andy Warhol