I leave you 130 Art phrases Of famous artists like Picasso, van Gogh, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Woody Allen, Salvador Dalí and many more.
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1-The purpose of art is the washing of the dust of the daily life of our souls.-Pablo Picasso.
2-If you hear a voice inside you saying"you can not paint", paint by all means, and that voice will be silent.-Vincent Van Gogh.
3-I do not paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.-Frida Kahlo.
4-The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection.-Michelangelo.
5-Painting is poetry that is seen and not felt, and poetry is painting that feels and is not seen.-Leonardo da Vinci.
6-Between a madman and I there is only one difference. The madman thinks he is sane and I know that I am crazy.-Salvador Dalí.
7-Creativity is allowing you to make mistakes. Art is knowing what to keep.-Scott Adams.
8-In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
9-If it's sold, it's art.-Frank Lloyd.
10-I dream of my painting and I paint my dream.-Vincent van Gogh.
11-The aim of art is to represent not the external appearance of things, but their inner meaning.-Aristotle.
12-The perfection of art is to hide art.-Quintilian.
13-The essence of all beautiful art, of all great art, is gratitude.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
14-A man paints with the brain and not with the hands.-Michelangelo.
15-A work of art that did not start in emotion is not art.-Paul Cezanne.
16-A great artist is always ahead of his time or behind him.-George Moore.
17-You do not do art of good intentions.-Gustave Flaubert.
18-Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It's good or bad.-Salvador Dalí.
19-Art must be an expression of love or is nothing.-Marc Chagall.
20-Art allows us to meet and lose at the same time.-Thomas Merton.
21-Learn the rules as a professional, so you can break them like an artist.-Pablo Picasso.
22-I prefer to die of passion than of boredom.-Vincent van Gogh.
23-Abstract art is what produces those who have no talent and what those who have no principles sell to those who are deeply confused and disoriented.-All Capp.
24-The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from everywhere: from the sky, the earth, a piece of paper, a passing form, a spider's web.-Pablo Picasso.
25-Many excellent chefs are spoiled because they are dedicated to art.-Paul Cauguin.
26-No great artist sees things as they really are. If I did, I would stop being an artist.-Oscar Wilde.
27-Do not be afraid of perfection, you will never reach it.-Salvador Dali.
28-To be an artist is to believe in life.-Henry Moore.
29-Art is the lie that allows us to understand the truth.-Pablo Picasso.
30-We have art to not die of the truth.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
31-The principles of true art is not to represent, but to evoke.-Jerzy Kosinski.
32-Painting is just another way to keep a journal.-Pablo Picasso.
33-I inherited a picture and a violin that turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made some terrible violins and Stradivarius was an amazing painter.-Tommy Cooper.
34-Art is not what you see, but what makes you see others.-Edgar Degas.
35-Art is a limitation. The most beautiful part of all the photographs is the frame.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
36-Either it's a fake or a really clever original.-Frank Sullivan.
37-Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.-George Bernard Shaw.
38-One eye sees, the other feels.-Paul Klee.
39-Art is the only way to escape without leaving home.-Twyla Tharp.
40-All art is quite useless.-Oscar Wilde.
41-Send light to the darkness of the heart of men, such is the duty of the artist.-Schumann.
42-There is no duty in art because art is free.-Wassily Kandinsky.
43-Each artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature in his paintings.-Henry Ward Beecher.
44-Anyone who says you can not see a thought just does not know about art.-Wynetka Ann Reynolds.
45-The art of art, the glory of expression and the sun of the light of letters, is simplicity.-Walt Whitman.
46. What picture of the National Gallery would save if a fire were declared? The one closest to the door, of course."George Bernard Shaw.
47. An image is a poem without words.-Horace.
48-Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
49-The painter has the universe in his mind and bodies.-Leonardo da Vinci.
50-Life is the art of drawing without a draft.-John W. Gardner.
51-Some painters transform the sun into a yellow stain, others transform a yellow stain into the sun.-Pablo Picasso.
"I do not paint things. I just paint the difference between things.-Henri Matisse.
53-There is nothing more truly artistic than loving people.-Vincent van Gogh.
54-Poor is the student who does not surpass his teacher.-Leonardo da Vinci.
55-God and other artists are always a little dark.-Oscar Wilde.
56-The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.-Anton Chekhov.
57-The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.-Émile Zola.
58-The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a canal.-Piet Mondrian.
59-When the nations grow old, the arts cool down, and trade settles in every tree.-William Blake.
60-There is no abstract art. You always have to start with something. Then you can remove all traces of reality.-Pablo Picasso.
61-Creativity requires courage.-Henri Matisse.
62. Personality is everything in art and poetry.-Goethe.
63-Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.-Pablo Picasso.
64-True art is characterized by an irresistible need in the creative artist.-Albert Einstein.
65-Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.-Andre Gide.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.-Oscar Wilde.
"I do not say everything, but I paint everything."Pablo Picasso.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world in which he lives.-Amy Lowell.
69-Everything you can imagine is real.-Pablo Picasso.
70-Art is in fact not bread, but the wine of life.-Jean Paul Richter.
71-The work of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.-Francis Bacon.
72-An artist is someone who produces things that people do not need.-Andy Warhol.
73-The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.-Orson Welles.
Art is not a thing; This is a road.-Elbert Hubbard.
75-What the garlic is to the salad, the madness is to the art.-Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
76-The greatest respect that an artist can pay to music is to give him life.-Pablo Casals.
77-Great art begins where nature ends.-Marc Chagall.
78. An artist never finishes his work; He simply abandons it.-Paul Valery.
79-The impulse to destroy is also a creative impulse.-Pablo Picasso.
80-To paint, you must close your eyes and sing.-Pablo Picasso.
81-In art as in love, instinct is sufficient.-Anatole France.
82. Imagination rules the world.-Napoléon Bonaparte.
83-Art is not a craft, it is the transmission of the sensations of what the artist has experienced.-Leo Tolstoy.
84-Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep that have no shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.-Winston Churchill.
85-Art does not have to be nice. It has to be significant.-Duane Hanson.
86-The earth has music for those who listen.-William Shakespeare.
87-Every good painter paints what he is.-Jackson Pollock.
88-The only time I feel free is when I'm painting.-Vincent Van Gogh.
89-Burn the museums! This old revolutionary slogan can be put into practice by the museums themselves. A museum that was burning would attract the usual people of their exhibitions today. Including the means of combustion does not mean the end of art, but the expansion of artistic institutions.-Frank Sullivan.
90-Salvador Dalí seduced many women, especially American women; But these seductions usually accustomed to make them go to their apartment, strip them, fry a couple of eggs, place them on the shoulders of the woman and put her on the street without having articulated a single word.-Luis Buñuel.
91-Art is plagiarism or revolution.-Paul Gauguin.
92-Art is when you hear a call from your heart and you respond.-Terri Guillemets.
93-The beautiful is always bizarre.-Charles Baudelaire.
94-Life does not imitate art, it imitates bad television.-Woody Allen.
95. Colors are the facts and sufferings of light.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
96-The task of the art of today is to bring chaos to order.-Theodor Adorno.
97. An artist can not fail; It is a success to be one.-Charles Horton Cooley.
98-Inspiration exists but must be found working.-Pablo Picasso.
99-Painting is easy when you do not know how to paint, but very difficult when you know.-Edgar Degas.
100-Art is a type of illness.-Giacomo Puccini.
101-Writing, for me, is simply thinking through my fingers.-Isaac Asimov.
The exclusive concentration of artistic talent on unique individuals and the consequent suppression of these two gifts in the great mass is a consequence of the division of labor. -Marx
103 - In a communist society there will be no painters but men who, at most, are also involved in painting. Marx
104- An artist who lives thinking that all his life to sell and to sell and to sell, he is no longer an artist; That step to be a merchant. -Documental, art for art.
105- What I love about photography is that thanks to it you can capture a moment that is gone forever, which is impossible to reproduce. -Karl Lagerfeld.
Art is the only thing that would be in the world. And the artist, is the only person in the world who is never serious. -Oscar Wilde.
107- Running in a bike race is an art, it's something you do because it makes you feel something inside you. -Valentino Rossi.
108- To love beauty is to taste. Creating beauty is art. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Each production of an artist should be an adventure of his soul. -W. Somerset Maugham.
Vision is the art of seeing what for others is invisible. -Jonathan Swift.
111. Together with the word of God, the noble art of music is the most treasured treasure of humanity. -Matin Luther.
Art is the triumph over chaos. -John Cheever.
113- Diversity: The art of thinking independently together. -Malcolm Forbes.
Art is art. Everything else is everything else. -Ad Reinhardt
"Go carefully when it comes to giving you a friendship." But when it comes to art, it is always steady and constant. -Socrates.
Music is the art of the prophet and the gift of God. -Martin Luther
The main enemy of art is common sense. -Pablo Picasso.
118. Nature is a haunted house, but art, art is a house that tries to be haunted. -Emily Dickinson
119- A photograph is not taken, a photograph is taken. -Ansel Adams
The urgency to destroy is also a creative necessity. -Mikhail Bakunin.
121- Any form of art is a form of power, that impacts, that changes. It not only moves us, it makes us move. -Ossie Davis
We use a mirror to see our faces, we use art to see our soul. George Bernard Shaw.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line at some point. - Gilbert K. Chesterton.
124- Architecture is a visual art, and buildings speak for themselves. - Julia Morgan.
A piece of art is, above all, an adventure of the mind. -Eugene Ionesco.
A beautiful body perishes, but a piece of art never dies. -Leonardo da Vinci.
Democracy is the art of directing the circus from the cage of the monkey. -H. L Mencken.
Art is the daughter of freedom. -Friedrich Schiller.
Music produces a kind of pleasure that humanity could not reproduce without it. -Confucius.
130- Life is a blank canvas and you need to throw on all the paint you can. -Danny Kaye.