“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
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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.
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”Franz Kafka
BooksEmotion
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Gustave Flaubert
DisciplineOriginality
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert
WritingSelf Discovery
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see that world multiply itself.”
Marcel Proust
PerspectiveArt
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
James Baldwin
TruthQuestions
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
UniquenessGreatness
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
T. S. Eliot
CreativityInfluence
“Make it new.”
Ezra Pound
InnovationShort Quotes
“Art is science made clear.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is the most effective mode of communication that exists.”
John Dewey
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”Carl Jung
PlayCreativity
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
BeautyPerspective
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
English Adage
ImagesShort Quotes
“True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.”Mahatma Gandhi
MeaningDepth
“Art must be in touch with nature, and wherever that touch is gone, art degenerates.”Swami Vivekananda
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
Kahlil Gibran
VisionNature
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”
Emily Dickinson
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
Robert Frost
WritingEmotion
“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.”
Berthe Morisot
PaintingPractice
“I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.”
Mary Cassatt
IndependenceWomen Artists
“As long as I live, I will have control over my being.”
Artemisia Gentileschi
StrengthWomen Artists
“Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make.”
Corita Kent
MistakesCreativity
“The only rule is work.”
Corita Kent
Hard WorkShort Quotes
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Gustav Mahler
TraditionPassion