Art Quotes

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

- Thomas Merton

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Pablo Picasso

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

- Aristotle

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Twyla Tharp

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"A picture is a poem without words."

- Horace

"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

- Jerzy Kosinski

"The earth without art is just 'eh.'"

- Unknown

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

- Edgar Degas

"An artist is not paid for their labor but for their vision."

- James McNeill Whistler

"The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature."

- George Inness

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul."

- Theodore Dreiser

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

- Francis Bacon

"Art speaks where words are unable to explain."

- Unknown

"To be an artist is to believe in life."

- Henry Moore

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that they need to experience."

- Andy Warhol

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

- Pablo Picasso