One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. – Ben Jonson
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. – Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891
Art disturbs, science reassures. – Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971
Art is spirituality in drag. – Jennifer Yane
The soul of the artist is oppressed by the atmosphere of the counting-house. – Franz von Dingelstedt, Die Amazone: Novelle, 1869, translated from German by J.M
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. – W. Somerset Maugham
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Steffens
Doing art… anything creative, is just a spiritual thing to do. I almost feel like every comic strip I do is sort of a little prayer. And I really feel like the only thing real is love. – Patrick McDonnell, “Super Soul Short: Inside the Mind Behind Mutts,” Super Soul
Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. – Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. – Terri Guillemets
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. – Terri Guillemets
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. – G.K. Chesterton
