Great Art Quotes

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.  ~André Gide

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.  ~Henry Ward Beecher
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.  ~Scott Adams


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


Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.  ~Twyla Tharp


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


Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.  ~Pablo Picasso


Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.  ~Stella Adler


Painting is silent poetry.  ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry


Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.  ~Leonardo da Vinci