Favorite Art Quotes

“Everything can and will be transformed in life and in art, if we speak the word LOVE without shame…in it lies true art.” Marc Chagall

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of tings, but their inward significance.” Aristotle

“What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit.” John Updike

“Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.” Vincent van Gogh

“Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what NOW you do not know.”
Rembrandt

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Pablo Picasso

“The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.” Andy Goldsworthy

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

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist.” Edward Hopper

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” Paul Gauguin

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”
Joan Miro

“I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.”
Edvard Munch

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton