Art Quotes

You can never do too much drawing.

Tintoretto

Great art can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to detail.

Sebastian J. Barbari

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

I do not seek. I find.

Paul Cezanne

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

Pablo Picasso

The past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

The proper school to learn art is not life but art.

Oscar Wilde

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Nietzsche

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Miguel de Cervantes

Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do.

Michelangelo