Quotes About Art

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

Movement is knowledge. Art is perception

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

I make art when I can't gather the words to say.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!

Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!

If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

It's good to vandalize one's own work.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?