Art Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

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

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

In art the best is good enough.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

My trade and art is to live.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.