Art Quotes

Little kids draw pictures of the ground, the sky, and space in between. If you ask them what the in-between space is, they say 'that's where we are.

Ed McCullough

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Dante Gabriel Rose

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Claude Monet

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Charles Horton Cooley

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain cannot be denied--it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

Ansel Adams

Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training.

Anna Freud

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

Alexander Liberman

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

Alberto Giacometti

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

Alberti

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt