Art Quotes

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

Art is a half-effaced recollection of a higher state from which we have fallen since the time of Eden.

Saint Hildegarde

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Roy Lichtenstein

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Paul Klee

The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Paul Klee

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

T. S. Eliot

If you want to have a million dollars and be an artist, start with two.

James Bauerle

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and an attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely.

Jackson Pollock

My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh