Art Quotes

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
-Albert Einstein

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
-Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
-Albert Einstein

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well."
-Albert Einstein

"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other."
-Voltaire

"Every artist was first an amateur."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
-Pablo Picasso

"We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
-Pablo Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-Pablo Picasso

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
-Pablo Picasso

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well."
-Aristotle

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
-Andre Gide

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
-John F. Kennedy

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

"Life imitates art more than art imitates life."
-Oscar Wilde

"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
-Oscar Wilde

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
-Leonardo da Vinci

"No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation."
-Horace Mann

"All art is an imitation of nature."
-Seneca

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
-Vincent van Gogh