Quotes about Art
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
- Marty Rubin
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
- Marty Rubin
Creativity takes courage.
- Henri Matisse
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.
- Marty Rubin
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
- John Piper
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
- JRR Tolkien
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
- William Saroyan
This was such bad writing that it was good.
- William Saroyan
A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.
- William Saroyan