“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Michelangelo

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw

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

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
George Moore

“For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.”
William McElcheran

“A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.”
Oscar Wilde

“An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.”
Paul Valéry

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
G.K. Chesterton

“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

“Art is spirituality in drag.”
Jennifer Yane

“Art is the struggle to understand.”
Audrey Foris

“Art hath an enemy called ignorance.”
Ben Jonson

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”
John Cheever

“All great art comes from a sense of outrage.”
Glenn Close

“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”
Jean Paul Richter

“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
John Updike

“The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Miller

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Oscar Wilde

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
Pablo Picasso

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso

“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.”
Pablo Picasso

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche