Art Quotes

While I work on a plan for the new version of the artquotes.net website, here’s a list of art quotes by famous artists from the old version of the website.

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

I strive to give to others a sense of sacredness, because an art event is not just a formal fact but also a moment where you put a mark on your dedication. You must have a feeling of joining a tribe where there is the stick of command, because you are in a sacred place with its rules.
Enzo Cucchi

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
Salvador Dali

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it’s set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it’s not all art. Some of it’s design, some of it’s illustration, some of it’s graphics, some of it’s concept, some of it’s business and some of it, hopefully, is art.
Ken Done

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man’s reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.
Jean Dubuffet

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don’t think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Damien Hirst

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term ‘life’ as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again be great.
Edward Hopper

Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
Martin Kippenberger

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
Henri Matisse

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

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso Quotes

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso Quotes

There were only five galleries in those days, and the artists really depended on each other socially, psychologically, and even critically. It’s impossible now. Business sure screwed up the art world universally.
Robert Rauschenberg

I don’t think there’s anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man’s art as material either literally or just implying that they’re doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
Robert Rauschenberg

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent van Gogh

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent van Gogh

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol Quotes

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
Andy Warhol Quotes

Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
Brett Whiteley Quotes

Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that’s all.
Brett Whiteley Quotes

Find more Art Quotes here. Please stop by again soon as I’m working hard behind the scenes to bring the Art Quotes website back to life.