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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Sep 10, 2025
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
Art is the child of Nature.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
A work of art is a confession.
Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.
Art is made by the alone for the alone.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Art is really a battle.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
All art is autobiographical.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Art is significant deformity.
The art is long, life is short
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
The object of Art is to give life a shape.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
All art is quite useless.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.