Quotes about Art
Creativity takes courage
— Henri Matisse
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
— Joseph Brodsky
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
— Washington Allston
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
— CS Lewis
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
— Oscar Wilde
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
— Marina Abramovic