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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Henry Miller
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuthan
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Walter Pater
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
All art is immortal.
Oscar Wilde
An art can only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their bread by it.
Samuel Butler
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Ambroise Valery
And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, "Oh, the pictures I might have made."
Vincent Van Gogh
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
Paul Klee
Art for art's sake.
Dante Alighieri
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
Andre Maurois
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is long, life is short.
Hippocrates
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
Georges Braque
Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art is not a study of positive reality; it is a search for ideal truth.
George Sand
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Green Hubbard
Art is significant deformity.
Stanley Fry
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Claude Debussy
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.
Marc Chagall
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately. You rape it.
Edgar Degas
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George Moore
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Oscar Wilde
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.
Pablo Picasso
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