Art Quotes

"To create something beautiful from pain is the truest alchemy."

"I believe that art has the power to heal what medicine cannot."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."

"The details are not details. They make the design."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The painter who draws by practice and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like a mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

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

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

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

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place."

"Technique is important, but heart is everything."

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

"Art is not made to decorate walls. It is war."

"Art is not about thinking, it is about feeling."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Bad artists copy, good artists imitate, great artists steal."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"When I was a child I drew like the masters. It took me a lifetime to learn to draw like a child."

"The spirit of the work speaks louder than the technique employed."

"In art, intention is not as important as execution."

"Art transcends politics; beauty speaks to the soul beyond ideology."

"Art is the expression of the inexpressible."