Famous Art Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of famous art quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
– Andy Warhol

“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
– Andy Warhol

“Land really is the best art.”
– Andy Warhol

“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.”
– Andy Warhol

“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
– Andy Warhol

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
– Andy Warhol

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
– Andy Warhol

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
– Andy Warhol

“I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’”
– Andy Warhol

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
– Auguste Rodin

“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
– Auguste Rodin

“True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.”
– Auguste Rodin

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
– Auguste Rodin

“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
– Barbara Hepworth

“Body experience… is the centre of creation.”
– Barbara Hepworth

“My works are an imitation of my own past and present.”
– Barbara Hepworth

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
– Bob Ross

“For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.”
– Claude Monet

“Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.”
– Claude Monet

“Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.”
– Dale Chihuly

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
– Egon Schiele

“I believe in the immortality of all creatures.”
– Egon Schiele

“Painting completed my life.”
– Frida Kahlo

“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”
– Frida Kahlo

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
– Frida Kahlo

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
– Frida Kahlo

“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
– Frida Kahlo

“Truth exists; only lies are invented.”
– Georges Braque

“Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.”
– Georges Braque

“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
– Georges Braque

“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
– Georges Braque

“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
– Georges Braque

“With age, art and life become one.”
– Georges Braque

“To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.”
– Georges Braque

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