Art Quotes

"What is any art but an effort to make a shudder of beauty permanent."

"Art reflects the true nature of human experience more honestly than philosophy."

"The most honest art is often the most difficult to understand."

"Art expresses what language struggles to capture."

"Art exists to remind us that we are not alone in our suffering or our joy."

"Art is the soul's attempt to understand itself."

"The artist who goes in for a combination of everything that is bright and pleasing rarely does justice to any part."

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

"Art is the language of the soul when words fail."

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his genius."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin."

"The kingdom of art is on the side of those who feel most, not on the side of those who think best."

"The condition every art requires is not so much freedom from restriction as truth to material."

"Poetry is the passion of my nature."

"I have absolutely nothing to boast of but my sensitivity."

"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of the purple curtain."

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty."

"An artistic soul sees beauty where others see only ordinary things."

"Art preserves what time seeks to destroy."

"Art is the attempt to make the invisible visible."

"Melancholy is the sweetness of all creation."

"Logic is merely the backbone of beauty."

"I have learned that life is not a spectacle to be watched but a canvas to be painted."

"The world is always going to misunderstand the artist."

"Art for art's sake is a vain thing."

"The artist, like the philosopher, seeks truth through different means."

"The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror."

"Art is nature passed through the alembic of man."

"In art, we see the soul's attempt to transcend the limitations of the material world."