Quotes about Art
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
— Pablo Picasso
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
— Ayn Rand
It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.
— Ayn Rand
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
— Oscar Wilde
One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
— Marty Rubin
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
— Marty Rubin
Creativity takes courage.
— Henri Matisse
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.
— Marty Rubin
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
— John Piper
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
— JRR Tolkien