148 Best Art Quotes

A baby is a blank canvas waiting to be painted with love.

Creativity thrives on fresh starts. This month is your canvas.

Creativity needs blank spaces. This month is yours to fill.

This month: Create more than you consume.

A race car is a symphony of speed and precision.

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. – Irving Berlin

People love what other people are passionate about. – Mia

How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? – Keith

You're a baby. You enjoy being seduced. – Sebastian

I'm not a writer, I'm a phony. – Mia

I'm going to do my own thing. – Sebastian

I'm not a performer. I'm a musician. – Sebastian

It's called "The Messengers." It's a jazz-pop fusion thing. – Sebastian

A bit of madness is key to give us new colors to see. – Lyrics

Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. A lot of people don't get that. – Rick

Art is an explosion of the soul. – Kagetoki's Artist

We're not just racers; we're artists! – Sonoshee

We're gonna paint this track with our colors! – JP

That painting... I've seen it before. In the future. – Chiaki Mamiya

The man I loved was an artist of the stars. He painted the constellations on film. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

The true masterpiece was the woman herself. – Genya Tachibana

The film is a lie, but it represents a truth. – Genya Tachibana

The actress has vanished, leaving only the legend. – Genya Tachibana

She merged with her roles, and her roles merged with her life. – Genya Tachibana

This is art. It's not a weapon. – Dean McCoppin

He's more of a "sensitive" artist type. – Dean McCoppin

How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. – Anton Ego

But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. – Anton Ego

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Mustapha Mond

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

You can't make tragedies without social instability.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. Perhaps more so.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. – Ishmael

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Basil Hallward

You have a wonderfully beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don't frown. You have. And Beauty is a form of Genius—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. – Lord Henry

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. – Basil Hallward

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. – Dorian Gray

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I have admitted that. I have admitted everything. To you, what would have been the use? There was no one who would have been of the slightest help to me. You are the one man who is entitled to know everything. You had something in your art that I have never seen in the art of any other living man. It had a suggestion of a strange personality. It was something that, I felt, if I ever told you, you would understand. What is the use of my telling you what you have seen for yourself? – Dorian Gray

The curves of your lips rewrite history. – Basil Hallward

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. – Faber

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. – Albert Einstein

Art is never finished, only abandoned. – Leonardo da Vinci

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. – Leonardo da Vinci

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. – Leonardo da Vinci

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. – Leonardo da Vinci