The 80 best phrases about Art
Art is one of the most interesting, beautiful, extensive and complex activities of humanity since, despite always having an aesthetic purpose with its product, each person can find their inspiration in everything in the world and give it an almost magical shape thanks to the different movements that govern the world of the arts. In any case, perhaps its greatest strength is the ability that art has to express and release emotions, thus generating an interaction between the artist and the public.
For this reason, we have compiled in this article the best quotes about art that will give you a first-hand look at the great impact that art has had on humanity.
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Phrases and reflections on art
From artists to mere fansWe have all ever been captivated by some work of art, be it poetry, writing, painting or sculpture that has marked our lives.
1. It took me four years to paint like Rafael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw as a child. (Picasso)
It is necessary to learn the theories to have our own method.
2. Music is synonymous with freedom, to play what you want and how you want, as long as it is good and has passion, that music is the food of love. (Kurt D. Cobain)
Music is one of the greatest forms of expression.
3. Make words art and not pain. (Poetic action, La Paz, Bolivia)
Take your emotions as a source of inspiration.
4. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or storm, but to add color to my evening sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)
A way in which artists take nature as inspiration.
5. In art, the hand can never run anything higher than the heart can imagine. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Many of the works of art are the result of what inhabits the interior of its artists.
6. Blessed is the task in which it is possible to sing! (Eugenio D'Ors)
The joy of singing.
7. This story is true since I have imagined it from beginning to end. (Boris Vian)
The best thing about writing is that you can build new worlds.
8. Art is what you let out. (Andy Warhol)
Art can be an emotional escape.
9. I dream of painting and then I paint my dreams. (Vincent van Gogh)
Imagination is infinite and the best resource for an artist.
10. Music is to the soul what gymnastics is to the body. (Plato)
Can you imagine living without music?
11. Art is magic freed from the lie of being true. (Theodor Adorno)
Art can be whatever we want it to be.
12. Art and love are the same: it is the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. (Chuck Klosterman)
In art and love, illusion abounds.
13. What is the art? If I knew, would take good care not to reveal. I do not seek, I find. (Pablo Picasso)
What is special about art is the mystery it carries with it.
14. Life is a blank canvas, and you must throw as much paint on it as you can. (Danny Kaye)
A great reflection on how we should see life.
15. Art does not reproduce what is visible but makes visible what is not always visible. (Paul Klee)
That is why art connects more with our emotions than with logic.
16. The eye receives the same pleasure from painted beauty as it does from real beauty. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Beauty is not always what you see at first glance in reality.
17. The world is full of little joys: art consists in knowing how to distinguish them. (Li Tai-Po)
Art is full of all those emotions that we are capable of feeling.
18. It is a great privilege to be able to work with my feelings (and also outside of them) through sculpture. (Louise Bourgeois)
How an artist uses his feelings for his work.
19. Any form of art is a form of power; it causes impact, it can influence changes: it can not only change us, but it makes us change. (Ossie Davis)
All art is shocking.
20. The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection. (Michelangelo)
A comparison between human and divine talent.
21. He loves art. Of all the lies it is, to say the least, the least fallacious. (Gustave Flaubert)
In art there can be great hidden truths.
22. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all they should be motivated to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions and build their confidence in spirit creative. (Ansel Adams)
No one has the right to force anyone to do the job as they see fit, but to encourage them to find their own way.
23. Art has a nice habit of spoiling all artistic theories. (Marcel Duchamp)
Art, in and of itself, is anarchist with its own anti-nature.
24. The artist finds greater pleasure in painting than in looking at the painting. (Seneca)
You don't always feel satisfaction with the finished product, but with the process you have.
25. I think that a life dedicated to music is a life beautifully spent, and that is what I have dedicated mine to. (Luciano Pavarotti)
This is how we should love our jobs.
26. A sculpture is not just one image, it is many images. (Antonio López García)
A way to see the work and the impact behind the sculptures.
27. The most beautiful experience I can have is mystery. It is the fundamental emotion found in the cradle of true art and true science. (Albert Einstein)
The mystery leads us to explore new limits.
28. The aim of art is not to represent the external appearance of things, but their inner meaning. (Aristotle)
Art reflects everything that we are not capable of observing.
29. Love art for its own sake and then everything else will be given to you in addition. (Oscar Wilde)
Success is achieved by loving what you do.
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30. Beauty is only visual, more real on film or on stone than in living three dimensions. (Naomi Wolf)
Beauty tends to be superficial.
31. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. (Frida Kahlo)
Each one has their own way of seeing the reality in which they find themselves.
32. I'd rather be the number one painter of ordinary things, than the second of the highest art. (Diego Velazquez)
Not all artists combined with ‘good taste’ in art.
33. The good thing about cinema is that for two hours the problems belong to others. (Pedro Ruiz)
The cinema is a great distraction that helps us relax.
34. The art is celebrating, singing, and bringing out beauty. (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Beauty is exploited to its full potential through art.
35. You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. (George Bernard Shaw)
A great reference to art.
36. Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. (Marc Chagall)
What do you feel when you see a work of art?
37. Learning music by reading music theory is like making love by mail order. (Luciano Pavarotti)
Art is always half theoretical and half practical.
38. There is no beauty without something strange in its proportions. (Francis Bacon)
Beauty is imperfect.
39. Art derives from a person's desire to communicate with another. (Edvard Munch)
Something beautiful about any work is that it manages to connect people from different parts of the world.
40. Art is stronger than nature. (Tiziano Vecellio)
Although nature, by itself, is a great work of art.
41. Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Music is necessary for everyone.
42. All the sculptor's hand can do is break the spell and release the sleeping figures on the stone. (Miguel Angel)
You have to make the best of things.
43. Being creative means being in love with life. You can only be creative if you love life enough to want to increase its beauty, only if you want to bring it a little more music, a little more poetry, a little more dance. (Osho)
Life is the greatest of the muses.
44. Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. (Thomas Merton)
The great reality of artists when they feel inspired.
45. Beautiful art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart march together. (ohn Ruskin)
A work is beautiful the more it reveals the essence of the artist himself.
46. In a flock of white doves, a black raven adds more beauty even than the candor of a swan. (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The different captures more attention, since it will always be striking.
47. I wanted to start a revolution, to use art to build the kind of society that I imagined myself. (Yayoi Kusama)
Art can be a rallying cry or a wake-up call.
48. I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. (Marcel Duchamp)
It is the artists who make the art.
49. If inspiration doesn't come to me, I go out to meet it, halfway there. (Sigmund Freud)
Inspiration never comes mystically, but only when we seek it.
50. Art offers the promise of inner fulfillment. (Alain de Botton)
Making art can be very satisfying.
51. Art is not a way to earn a living. Rather, it is a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, good or bad, is a way to grow the soul. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Many artists cling to their art in order to face life itself.
52. Treat a work of art like a prince. Let me speak to you first. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
You never have to judge things at first glance.
53. With a large number of messy strokes it is easy to set up a landscape, but messy sounds do not compose any music. (Georg Ch. Lichtenberg)
The difference between two types of art.
54. All love poems are ridiculous. They wouldn't be love poems if they weren't ridiculous. (Fernando Pessoa)
Sometimes love makes us look foolish.
55. I see art and literature as a possible broadening of horizons towards freedom. (Joan Brossa)
Any artistic manifestation gives freedom to those who consume it.
56. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. (Man Ray)
Inspiration brings a very realistic product.
57. Sometimes you have to spoil the painting a little bit in order to finish it. (Eugène Delacroix)
Things cannot always have a straight course.
58. Art disturbs, science assures. (Georges Braque)
Art always manages to move us emotionally.
59. Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself notices at the same time a certain obligation: because he knows that he cannot waste this talent, but that he must develop it. (Pope Juan Pablo II)
A divine vision of the artist's gift.
60. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. (Edgar Degas)
Sometimes art is thought to provoke a reaction in the public.
61. Life beats and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Stella Adler)
Art is the highest expression of the soul.
62. Art is not about representing new things, but about representing something new. (Ugo Foscolo)
There is always a novel element in every work of art.
63. I understand that an artist is someone who, in the silence of others, uses his voice to say something, and that he has the obligation that this is not something useless but something that gives a service to mens. (Joan Miro)
Through art, many voices are heard.
64. Art is to comfort all who are broken by life. (Vincent van Gogh)
A cathartic way of seeing art.
65. Whoever cultivates fantasy in art is a bit crazy. His problem is to make interesting this madness. (François Truffaut)
Well they say that every artist has a bit of madness in him.
66. Photography is a secret of a secret. The more he tells you, the less you know. (Diane Arbus)
Photography has the power to freeze thousands of stories in an instant.
67. “There are no rules for good photographs, they are just good photographs. (Ansel Adams)
They are all good photographs because they capture good moments.
68. There is no duty in art because art is free. (Wassily Kandinsky)
A maximum expression of freedom.
69. When I am making art, I have absolutely no social responsibility whatsoever. It is like dreaming. (David Cronenberg)
Creation is shaping what is imagined.
70. Poetry is a weapon loaded with the future. (Gabriel Celaya)
The poetry is captivating and thoughtful.
71. Art is linked to what is not yet created. (Eduardo Chillida)
In art there is always the possibility of creating something new.
72. Art is memory. It is the memory of what we were. (Svetlana Alexievich)
In it is written much of the history that we did not live, but that existed.
73. Music is the most direct art, it enters through the ear and goes to the heart. (Magdalena Martínez)
Music has the ability to connect our body with the mind and soul.
74. Art can change how I feel in the morning. The same work can change me in different ways, it depends on what I'm going through. (David Bowie)
Sometimes what we perceive of art is nothing more than the connection it has with what we feel at that moment.
75. Love art in yourself, more than yourself in art. (Konstantin Stanislavski)
Take pride in your ability to produce art.
76. There are always two people in each painting: the photographer and the viewer. (Ansel Adams)
The spirit of the photographer also enters a photograph.
77. Telling the painter that nature should be taken as it is is like telling the pianist that he can sit on the piano. (James Whistler)
You should never limit the creativity of an artist, because it will not result in a favorable result.
78. Aren't poets always on the side of justice? (Salvatore Quasimodo)
The poems connect with what many perceive of reality.
79. There are very beautiful emotions around us and in art, where they are the most intense, I do not accept mediocrity. There is art, not decorative art. Art is rigorous, decorative art is not, it is superficial, boisterous. (Le Corbusier)
A clear rejection of decorative art considered 'perfect'.
80. When you start a painting it is something that is outside of you. When you finish it, it seems that you have installed yourself inside it. (Fernando Botero)
There is always something of the artist within each work.