Art Quotes

"Art is the soul's conversation with eternity."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Art is the mirror of nature and the handmaid of truth."

"One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, the Divine Vision."

"Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd."

"When true Imagination appears in Art, the Artist has become the Mediator between God and Man."

"The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts and All things Else are Trifles."

"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to Heaven is no Artist."

"Language is a perpetual creation."

"Sculpture and painting are the branches of the same art; they differ only in the material and the method of expression."

"Art without passion is merely craft."

"Art is the effort of man to express the idea that nature impresses upon him."

"Let the poets speak, because they see what others do not."

"Art and love are the same thing: it's the effort to be beyond ourselves."

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

"Art is not decoration; it is an expression of the human condition."

"Sweet is the lore which Nature brings"

"What is art but life upon the larger scale"

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth."

"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall."

"In art, one's personal taste should be abandoned."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expound."

"Art is the mirror of the soul."

"Art speaks when words are silent."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"Art is not to be taught in academies. It is the birth of passion."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Art breathes where life itself might fail."

"The work of the artist is to transcend the mundane."

"Art is the lie that enables us to see the truth."