Art Quotes

"There are moments when art attains a height, when the artist transcends the personal and becomes a channel for something universal."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"Art is the effort of man to express the unexampled in his nature."

"The art of living is the art of giving."

"The art of living is the art of knowing what to hold and what to let go."

"Art is the language of the soul speaking to the soul."

"Art is the most generally pleasing form of expression."

"Beauty is a thing that comes from the heart, not from without."

"The object of Art is not to reproduce nature but to interpret it."

"I am convinced that all art comes from the need to express something within."

"The hunger for beauty is as real as the hunger for food."

"A rose is a rose is a rose."

"I write for myself and strangers."

"Picasso once said about me that I was the only woman in the history of the world who could understand him."

"The business of art is to reveal the relations which nature at any moment wears."

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a compelling illusion of it."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, his inner life."

"Art is the language of the soul."

"The artist must possess the courageous soul to seek the truth of human experience."

"To create is to live fully; to live is to understand oneself."

"The artist's duty is to reveal what others prefer to ignore."

"Art is the mirror in which we see our true selves reflected."

"Art gives voice to what society wishes to keep silent."

"Art emerges from the spaces between what we say and what we feel."

"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me."

"Art is the great democratizer."

"Art is the criticism of life."

"Art reflects the soul of a people; what we create reveals who we are."

"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

"Poetry is the attempt to convey to readers the full content of a poem."