Top 495 Art Quotes

That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It’s not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
Frank Gehry
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
Will Rogers
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.
Sylvia Plath
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
Andy Goldsworthy
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Milan Kundera
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts – absolute gifts – which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
If you’re a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it’s a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn’t even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn’t have an audience.
Jason Mraz
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
Camille Paglia
Art is the triumph over chaos.
John Cheever
Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
Malcolm Mclaren
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Robert Frost
A work of art doesn’t exist outside the perception of the audience.
Abbas Kiarostami
Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.
Brandon Boyd
I don’t make a particular distinction between ‘high art’ and ‘low art.’ Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it.
John Williams
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

In conclusion, art quotes celebrate the beauty, the creativity, and the transformative power of artistic expression. They remind us of the immense potential within each of us to create, to inspire, and to connect through art. Let these quotes resonate with you as you embrace your own artistic journey, whether as a creator, an appreciator, or both. Remember, art has the power to inspire, to heal, and to change the world. Embrace the artist within you, and let your creativity shine in all that you do.