“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err.”
Leonardo da Vinci
ExperienceJudgment
Art Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ART
Art Quotes
Read 200 of the best art quotes on creativity, painting, beauty and imagination from Leonardo da Vinci, Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Rodin and more.
“The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things.”
Leonardo da Vinci
PaintingPoetry
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.”
Leonardo da Vinci
KnowledgeLegacy
“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain should prove a stronger incentive than renown in art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
MoneyIntegrity
“I am still learning.”
Michelangelo
LearningHumility
“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.”
Vincent van Gogh
ResilienceDrawing
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
Vincent van Gogh
NatureUnderstanding
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
Vincent van Gogh
PassionDedication
“What is done in love is done well.”
Vincent van Gogh
LoveWork
“What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of great beauty.”
Auguste Rodin
BeautyTransformation
“In art only that which has character is beautiful.”
Auguste Rodin
CharacterBeauty
“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom.”
James McNeill Whistler
MasterpieceBeauty
“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.”
James McNeill Whistler
MasteryPainting
“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”
Joshua Reynolds
Hard WorkTalent
“It is by being conversant with the inventions of others, that we learn to invent.”
Joshua Reynolds
LearningCreativity
“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.”
William Blake
GeniusOriginality
“One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, the Divine Vision.”
William Blake
ImaginationPoetry
“Great art is the expression of the mind of a great man.”
John Ruskin
GreatnessMind
“The whole technical power of painting depends on our recovery of what may be called the innocence of the eye.”
John Ruskin
SeeingPainting
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde
PortraitsSelf-Expression
“The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.”
Oscar Wilde
IntegrityOriginality
“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”
Oscar Wilde
BeautyArtists
“The stronger the infection, the better is the art as art.”
Leo Tolstoy
EmotionImpact
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GeniusSelf-Trust
“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetryBeauty