What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. it's now what you see that is art; art is the gap.
- Marcel Duchamp

The object of art is not to reproduce realirty, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
- Alberto Giacometti

Every time i paint a portrait, i lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent

Art is to console those who are broken by life.
- Vincent Van Gogh

I dream my painting and i paint my dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
- Keith Haring

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, i paint my own reality.
- Frida Kahlo

Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso

Color is my daylong obsession, joy and torment
- Claude Monet

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James Whistler

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. an artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas

No great work of art is ever finished
- Michelangelo

Obsessive people make great art.
- Susan Sontag

Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
- Leon Trotsky

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali

A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.
- Salvador Dali

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

The object is not to make art, it is to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
- Robert Henri

I saw the angle in the marble and carved until i set him free.
- Michelangelo

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. it is an instrument of war.
- Pablo Picasso

Art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
- Rene Magritte

Every human is an artist. the dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- Miguel Ruiz

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
- Eric Gill

Logic will get you from a to z, imagination will get you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

A work is finished when an artist realises his intentions.
- Rembrandt

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that s felt rather than seen.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana

A blank canvas has unlimited possibilities.
- Stephanie Perkins

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Art is a line around your thoughts.
- Gustav Klimt

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

Treat a job of art like a prince, let it talk to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.
- Henry Matisse

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.
- Konstantin Stanislavaski

Art and love are te same thing; it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
- Chuck Klosterman

What keeps my heart awake is colourful silence.
- Claude Monet

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
- Andre Malraux

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
- Albert Camus

Every portrait that is painted with feelings is a portrait of the artist. not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wishdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
- Magdalena Abakanowicz

Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
- Al Hirschfield

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
- Wassily Kandinsky

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Art is a way of recognising oneself.
- Louise Bourgeoisd

To be an artist is to believe in life.
- Henry Moore

Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
- Rainbow Rowel

The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
- Jerky Kosinski

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece.
- Kai Green

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Francis Bacon

A beautiful body perishes but a work of art never dies
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Art deteriorates when it is done for the audience.
- James Pierce

Art is making something out of nothing.
- Frank Zappa

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
- St. Francis of Assisi

There is no abstract art. you must always start with something.
- Pablo Picasso

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
- Roman Payne

Every child is an artist. the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
- Pablo Picasso

You might ask an artist to explain his art, but that defeats the purpose.
- Rick Riordan

Every canvas is a journey all it's own
- Helen Frankenthaler

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
- Edgard Varese

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
- Paul Cezzane

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. just measure it in inches.
- Andy Warhol

I found i could say things with colour and shapes that i couldn't say any other way - things i had no words for.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- Pablo Picasso

Imagination does not become great until human beings give the courage and strength, use it to create.
- Maria Montessori

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- Charles Cooley

Creativity takes courage
- Henry Matisse

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
- Pablo Picasso

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
- Banksy

Art is not a thing, it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard

Art is what you can get away with.
- Andy Warhol

A work is finished when an artist realises his intentions.
- Rembrandt

Art is the expression of profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
- Albert Einstein

The modern artist is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
- Jackson Pollock

The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
- Bob Ross

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
- Paul Gauguin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
- Agnes Martin

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
- Paul Cezzane

If i could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- Edward Hopper

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- Rembrandt

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
- Freddie Mercury

I believe talent is just a pursued interest. anybody can do what i do.
- Bob Ross

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Paul Cezzane

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth - at least the truth that is given us to understand.
- Pablo Picasso

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
- George Bernard Shaw