Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
Paul Klee

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Albrecht Durer

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Anonymous

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas

Looking is a gift, but seeing is a power.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
Audrey Flack

The only rule in art is what works.
Anonymous

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
William Wordsworth

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.

Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
Sir Walter Scott

The secret of life is in art.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the struggle to understand.
Audrey Foris

Art is the triumph over chaos.
John Cheever

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is Man’s nature. Nature is god’s art.
James Bailey

Art disturbs, science reassures.
Georges Braque

Art is a kind of illness.
Giacomo Puccini

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is spirituality in drag.
Jennifer Yane

All art requires courage.
Anne Tucker

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Jonson

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
Corri Alius

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.
Devin

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.
Peter C. Wilson

Painting is silent poetry.
Plutarch, Moralia

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G.K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G.K. Chesterton

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomita

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
Konstantin Stanislavsky

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – and you answer.
Star Riches

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp

There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.
Meghan

Art is what’s left over after you’ve defined everything else.
Michael Vitale

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening.
Aaron Howard

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol