Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
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