148 Best Art Quotes

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. – Leonardo da Vinci

It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. – Napoleon

This is pretty much the worst video ever made. – Deb

I'm pretty much obsessed with it. – Deb

Technology is cool. – Deb

This is my art, and it is dangerous! – Delia Deetz

I'm feeling a little anxious. A little, I don't know, unappreciated. – Delia Deetz

I'm not going to say I'm sorry. My art is what keeps me sane. – Delia Deetz

Art is like a mirror. It shows us who we are. – V

You know, I'm a writer. I use words for a living. I'm the master of my own domain, and "fine" just doesn't cut it. – Hank Moody

You can’t polish a turd. But you can roll it in glitter. – Hank Moody

I'm a writer. I give the truth scope. – Hank Moody

The Isenheim Altarpiece depicts a saint being torn apart for his faith. The flesh is being ripped from his body. And he's looking up at God, not in anger, but in gratitude. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. – Vincent Van Gogh

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. – Vincent Van Gogh

There is no blue without yellow and without orange. – Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to… The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. – Vincent Van Gogh

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. – Vincent Van Gogh

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. – Vincent Van Gogh

There is nothing in the world that is as interesting as people, and one can never study them enough. – Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. – Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. – Vincent Van Gogh

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent Van Gogh

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. – Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. – Stanley Kubrick

You cannot make a movie without a very good script. The script is the foundation of the film. – Stanley Kubrick

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. – Stanley Kubrick

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. – Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. – Stanley Kubrick

The most perfect world is the one that doesn't exist. That's the one we're trying to get to. – Stanley Kubrick

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover'? This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to my films. – Stanley Kubrick

The most overrated quality in filmmaking is originality. – Stanley Kubrick

All you can do is fantasize that you're going to do the most incredible movie anyone has ever seen, and then you try to make it. – Stanley Kubrick

The most personal is the most creative. – Martin Scorsese

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. – Martin Scorsese

I'm for anything that subverts what the Hollywood narrative has become. – Martin Scorsese

The more you know about the history of what you're doing, the more freedom you have. – Martin Scorsese

You have to make the film you need to make. – Martin Scorsese

The problem now is that it's being taken away from us. The art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, and reduced. – Martin Scorsese

Style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated. – Martin Scorsese

I steal from every single movie ever made. – Quentin Tarantino

I love movies. You love movies. This is not a business transaction. This is a love transaction. – Quentin Tarantino

I always say you should do a movie like it's the last movie you're ever going to do, and the last movie anybody's ever going to see. – Quentin Tarantino