"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
― Andre Gide

Some have tried to define it, some have tried to complicate it, and some have tried to oversimplify it, but the temper of art is like an abyss, full yet absent, empty yet present. It is not meant to be comprehended but felt. In its very essence, art is about unbounded passion and reflections of life―the more you try to capture it, the more will it elude.

Our world has witnessed some of the best, tempestuous, incredibly gifted, avant-garde, maverick, shocking artists who flung themselves blindly in the profound ocean of art. It was for their indissoluble spirit and unimaginable passion for their art that helped them withstand criticism, hardships, and poverty.

Below are some handpicked quotes about art by the masters of art.

Inspirational Quotes on Art
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
― Jean-Michel Basquiat

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."
― Pablo Picasso

"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."
― Claude Monet

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
― Thomas Merton

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."
― Robert Henri

"Great art picks up where nature ends."
― Marc Chagall

"Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia."
― Brett Whiteley

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
― Salvador Dali

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
― Michelangelo

"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
― Oscar Wilde

"Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."
― Georges Braque

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
― Edgar Degas

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."
― Robert Henri

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
― Andre Gide

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Quotes About Painting
"Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within."
― Jackson Pollock

"When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."
― Amedeo Modigliani

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
― Vincent van Gogh

"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
― Frida Kahlo

"If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint."
― Edward Hopper

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
― Pablo Picasso

"A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people"
― Edgar Degas

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
― Paul Cezanne

"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
― Claude Monet

"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."
― Balthus

"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places."
― Paul Gardner

"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings"
― George Tooker

"Colour and I are one. I am a painter."
― Paul Klee

Famous Quotes by Artists
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
― Francis Bacon

"The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing."
― Hans Hofmann

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
― Pablo Picasso

"Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too."
― Andy Warhol

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
― Eugene Delacroix

"To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life."
― Diego Rivera

"As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied! This isn't greed, though it might be appetite."
― Lawrence Calcagno

"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves."
― Willem de Kooning

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
― Jean Cocteau

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
― Oscar Wilde

"In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature."
― Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

Spanning from transcendental to avant-garde, art is a ubiquitous phenomenon- ever evolving, ever changing. Consider the above quotes as colors and yourself as an immaculate canvas, let them paint you, for you might just discover the artist who dwells in you.


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nice quotes .... but I think only artists wld understand these quotes better

We are nothing But pencil in the hand of God.

Great words

Art is life
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interesting

I will comment after reading the quotes!

NIce quote

The World is Artistic in Nature. -- Me

"Real art is in structures and engineering masterpiece! Some lived on for thousand or even millions of years, adding meaning and beauty to the environment they found themselves. The way humans shape their environment as a result of war, population or natural disasters is infact art" - Me

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art....
i love art....

My signature is my own quote. One day, you will put me among those people

I've know those quotations tho' some of them are quite deep and thought provoking.

i has readed it before.

Anytime I won book book space my hand go dey shake.why?

Like my art lecturer always say- " we are not barbarians that will beat you with cain, we do so with pencil and painting"-