“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you.”
Neil Gaiman
OriginalityIndividuality
Art Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ART
Art Quotes
Read 200 of the best art quotes from Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rabindranath Tagore and more on creativity and the artist's life.
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath
Self DoubtCreativity
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
Leonard Bernstein
AchievementPlanning
“Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
PracticeMastery
“Simplicity is the final achievement.”
Frédéric Chopin
SimplicityMastery
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
Orson Welles
LimitationsCreativity
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
Akira Kurosawa
ArtistsCourage
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”John F. Kennedy
FreedomCulture
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.”John F. Kennedy
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”Winston Churchill
TraditionInnovation
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.”Albert Camus
CultureFreedom
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Bertolt Brecht
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
Friedrich Schiller
NatureHumanity
“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
GeniusTalent
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”Friedrich Nietzsche
GratitudeGreat Art
“Art is a jealous mistress.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
DedicationShort Quotes
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”Henry David Thoreau
ImaginationWorld
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”Walt Whitman
SimplicityExpression
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
John Keats
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PoetryInfluence
“God uses us to help each other so, lending our minds out.”
Robert Browning
SharingInspiration
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin
QualityEffort
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Elbert Hubbard
ArtShort Quotes