10 Short Quotes about Art

1. Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~ Amy Lowell

2. If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. ~ Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider,

3. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. ~ Edith Wharton

4. A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ~ Edmond de Goncourt

5. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ~ Eugene Delacroix

6. Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. ~ Frank Zappa

7. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

8. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

9. The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. ~ Louis I Kahn

10. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso