Famous Art Quotes And Sayings

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“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
– Michelangelo

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
– Michelangelo

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
– Michelangelo

“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”
– Michelangelo

“I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
– Pablo Picasso

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth”
– Pablo Picasso

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”
– Pablo Picasso

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
– Paul Klee

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
– Paul Klee

“Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
– Paul Klee

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
– Paul Klee

“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
– Paul Klee

“When one is painting one does not think.”
– Raphael Sanzio

“Choose only one master – Nature.”
– Rembrandt

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
– Rembrandt

“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
– Rene Magritte

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
– Rene Magritte

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
– Rene Magritte

“Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.”
– Rene Magritte

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
– Rene Magritte

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
– Salvador Dali

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”
– Salvador Dali

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.”
– Salvador Dali

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