Quotes about Art
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
- Albert Einstein
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
- Pablo Picasso
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
- George Lucas
Where words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
- Pablo Picasso
The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- William Faulkner
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
- William Faulkner
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
- William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- William Hazlitt
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
- Francis Schaeffer