All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. – Honore de Balzac
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein
I cry out for order and find it only in art. – Helen Hayes
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. – Ansel Adams
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. – Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. – Paul Cezanne
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. – Arthur Schopenhauer
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. – Jackson Pollock
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. – Jean Cocteau
Every good painter paints what he is. – Jackson Pollock
The history of art is the history of revivals. – Samuel Butler
