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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.
“We should talk less and draw more.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DrawingAction
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
Plato
SimplicityBeauty
“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.”
Aristotle
WritingCreativity
“Poets wish either to profit or to delight.”
Horace
PoetryPurpose
“Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.”
Alexander Pope
NatureClassics
“Those rules of old discover'd, not devis'd, are Nature still, but Nature methodiz'd.”
Alexander Pope
RulesNature
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
Samuel Johnson
WritingPurpose
“A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no identity.”
John Keats
PoetsIdentity
“Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time.”
John Keats
ArtTimelessness
“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PoetsInspiration
“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
NatureArt
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”
Kahlil Gibran
BeautyLife
“From the age of six, I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things.”
Katsushika Hokusai
PassionChildhood
“At ninety I shall penetrate the mystery of things.”
Katsushika Hokusai
MasteryAge
“The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
SoulMusic
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
Edgar Degas
IntuitionPainting
“I must have flowers, always, and always.”
Claude Monet
FlowersNature
“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Claude Monet
ColourPassion
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
BeautyEndurance
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
Paul Cézanne
PaintingPerception
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin
ImaginationVision
“Painting is only a bridge linking the painter's mind with that of the viewer.”
Eugène Delacroix
ConnectionPainting
“Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
BeautyTruth
“The sun is God.”
J. M. W. Turner
LightFaith