Art Quotes, Sayings about artistic work
+20To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
- Anonymous
+19Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
- Anonymous
+18It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
- Anonymous
+18Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Anonymous
+17Life is a work of art designed by the one who lives it.
- Anonymous
+16Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
- Anonymous
+16Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
- Anonymous
+16Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
- Anonymous
+16Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
- Anonymous
+16Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Anonymous
+15Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down
- Anonymous
+15The only rule in art is what works.
- Anonymous
+14Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power.
- Anonymous
+14Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
- Anonymous
+14Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
- Anonymous
+14There is no ‘must’ in art because art is free.
- Anonymous
+14Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
- Anonymous
+13Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Anonymous
+13There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is to like it rationally.
- Anonymous
+12Great art picks up where nature ends.
- Anonymous
+2Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
- W. H. Auden
+1Art is frozen zen.
- Reginald H.Blyth
+1Art should stimulate.
- Dr. Ala Bashir
+1Art is I; science is we.
- Claude Bernard
+1Art is a lower case word.
- Jack Chambers
+1Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau
+1Art is not “about.” Art is.
- Darby Bannard
+1All art is autobiographical.
- Anonymous
+1Art should be waged like war.
- Mark Boyle
+1Art is the triumph over chaos.
- John Cheever
+1Art is about paying attention.
- Laurie Anderson
+1What is art? Nature concentrated.
- Honore De Balzac
+1Art, n. This word has no definition.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
- Jean Cocteau
+1Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
- Paul Cezanne
+1Never judge a work of art by its defects.
- Washington Allston
+1Art is manipulation without intervention.
- Louise Bourgeois
+1Art is an intersection of many human needs.
- Carl Andre
+1Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
- Georges Braque
+1Art is Nature speeded up and God slowed down.
- Chazal
