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Find & Share Quotes with Friends Sign in with Facebook Sign in options Join Goodreads Art Quotes Quotes tagged as "art" Showing 1-30 of 9,103 “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life 29964 likes Like “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park tags: art, love 9020 likes Like “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw tags: art, life 8210 likes Like “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche tags: art, chaos 6841 likes Like “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh tags: art, inspiration, love, strength 5683 likes Like “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science 5282 likes Like “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci tags: art, inspirational 5054 likes Like “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh tags: art, dreams, inspiration, painting 4508 likes Like “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country tags: art, arts-and-humanities, creative-process, writing 4459 likes Like “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement 4383 likes Like “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness 4280 likes Like “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anais Nin tags: anais-nin, art 4210 likes Like “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola tags: art, calling, life 3816 likes Like “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story tags: art, love, profound 3556 likes Like “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island tags: art 3377 likes Like “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide 3123 likes Like “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso tags: art 3110 likes Like “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom 2658 likes Like “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: art, beauty, music, wonder 2483 likes Like “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.” ― Woody Allen tags: art, humor, life 2457 likes Like “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity tags: art, books 2334 likes Like “Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.” ― Robert Heinlein tags: art, life, old, wisdom, youth 2331 likes Like “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld tags: art, capture, fashion-designer, forever, gone, impossible, memories, memory, moment, photo, photography, reproduce, shoot 2324 likes Like “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh tags: art, love 2273 likes Like “We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” ― Bob Ross tags: art, inspirational 2179 likes Like “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ― Rick Riordan tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry 2146 likes Like “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing 2044 likes Like “Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray tags: art, humanity, sadness 2026 likes Like “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray tags: art, painting 1939 likes Like “I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.” ― Marilyn Monroe tags: art, beauty, glamour, sexuality 1939 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100 next » All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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