“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall
“Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.” – Hedy Lamarr
“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” – Bertolt Brecht
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Émile Zola
“Art, freedom, and creativity will change society faster than politics.” – Victor Pinchuk
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” – Auguste Rodin
“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.” – Jean Cocteau
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” – Hans Hofmann
“Art has no rules.” – Andy Warhol
“A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.” – Salvador Dalí
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
“Art is the only serious thing in the world.” – Oscar Wilde
“Art is the signature of civilizations.” – Beverly Sills
“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Art is the child of imagination and the parent of genius.” – Joshua Reynolds
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” – Paul Cezanne
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser
“Art is a way of recognizing oneself.” – Louise Bourgeois
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” – James Baldwin
“Art is a revolt against fate.” – André Malraux
“Art is the only way to escape without leaving.” – Twyla Tharp
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art should be something that liberates your soul.” – Keith Haring
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” – Duane Hanson
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is literacy of the heart.” – Elliot Eisner
“The more personal you make it, the more universal it becomes.” – Jean Michel Basquiat
“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
“The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life.” – W. Edward Brown
“Art is the only way to express what words cannot.” – Unknown
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” – Plutarch
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Art transcends cultural boundaries.” – Richard Kamler
“Art is an experience, not an object.” – Robert Motherwell
“Art is the extension of language.” – Unknown
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Art is the diary of life.” – Unknown
“Art is the only thing that makes life worth living.” – Henry Miller
“Art is the voice of the heart.” – Anonymous
“Art is a spiritual journey.” – Unknown
“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” – Unknown
“Art is the footprints of the soul.” – Unknown
“Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat