Art Quotes

It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.