The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Art is a line around your thoughts.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
Art is a mirror held up to nature.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.
Art is freedom. Being able to bend things most people see as a straight line.
— Unknown
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Creativity takes courage.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.
Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
— Banksy
Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art speaks where words are unable to explain.
— Unknown
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take risks.
Art is an experience, not an object.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
To create one's own world takes courage.
Art is what you can get away with.
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Art is the only way to find yourself and lose yourself at the same time.
The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate—it is life, intensified, brilliant life.
The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is a weapon that penetrates the soul.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
— Banksy
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Art is the journey of a free soul.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The purpose of art is to stop time.