Art Quotes

We all have different views about art. We tend to judge art according to our own standards or the widely accepted aesthetics of a greater community. Because of this, the very meaning of art itself has evolved over the years. However, the acceptable meaning that most people take is how art invokes feelings and manifest ideas.

Here are some quotes from different artists that give us a different view about art. These people – artists if you must – have their own share of art experience that they want to share with the world. If you are a fan of art, you will surely love using these quotes.

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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Paul Gauguin

1974

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

Scott Adams

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

Pablo Picasso

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Vincent Van Gogh

Life is creation – self and circumstances, the raw material.

Dorothy Richardson

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

James Baldwin

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Georges Braque

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.

Alfred Hitchcock

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Joan Miro

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

Albert Einstein

If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.

Bob Ross

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

Salvador Dalí

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.

Henri Matisse

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

Georgia O’Keeffe

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.

Susan Sontag

Do you love art? You will certainly enjoy reading these quotes from the famous artist, authors, scientists, and celebrities. Feel free to share with your friends, family, and loved ones.