Famous art quotes and sayings

Quotes about "Art"

Rules and models destroy genius and art. -William Hazlitt
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -Henry Ward Beecher
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. -Andy Warhol
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. -Howard Dietz
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. -Dale Carnegie
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. -Henri Matisse
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -Henri Matisse
I didn't have any interest in traditional art. -Cindy Sherman
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. -M. C. Escher
Pictures must not be too picturesque. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. - Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. - Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. - Salvador Dali

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. - Henri Matisse

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. - Henri Matisse

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. - Henri Matisse

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. - Henri Matisse

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. - Henri Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. - Henri Matisse

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. - Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. - Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. - Henri Matisse

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. - Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. - Paul Gauguin

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. - Paul Gauguin

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. - Paul Gauguin

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