Art is one of the most interesting, beautiful, extensive and complex activities of humanity since, despite always having an aesthetic purpose with its product, every A person can find their inspiration in everything in the world and give it an almost magical shape thanks to the different movements that govern the world of arts. In any case, perhaps its greatest strength is the ability that art has to express and release emotions, thus generating an interaction between the artist and the public.
Therefore, we have compiled in this article the best quotes about art that will give you a first-hand look at the great impact it has had on humanity.
Phrases and reflections on art
From artists to mere admirers, we have all been captivated by some work of art, be it poetry, writing, painting or sculpture that has marked our lives.
one. It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn how to draw as a child. (Picasso)
It is necessary to learn the theories to have our own method.
2. Music is synonymous with freedom, playing what you want and how you want, as long as it's good and has passion, music is the food of love. (Kurt D. Cobain)
Music is one of the greatest forms of expression.
3. Make words art and not pain. (Poetic action, La Paz, Bolivia)
Take your emotions as a source of inspiration.
4. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to bring rain or storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)
A way in which artists take nature as inspiration.
5. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Many works of art are the result of what lives inside their artists.
6. Blessed is the task in which one can sing! (Eugenio D'Ors)
The joy of singing.
7. This story is true since I have imagined it from beginning to end. (Boris Vian)
The best thing about writing is that you can build new worlds.
8. Art is what you let out. (Andy Warhol)
Art can be an emotional outlet.
9. I dream of painting and then I paint my dreams. (Vincent van Gogh)
Imagination is infinite and the best resource for an artist.
10. Music is for the soul what gymnastics is for the body. (Plato)
Can you imagine living without music?
eleven. Art is magic freed from the lie of being true. (Theodor Adorno)
Art can be whatever we want it to be.
12. Art and love are the same: it is the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. (Chuck Klosterman)
In art and love illusion abounds.
13. What is the art? If I knew, would take good care not to reveal. I do not seek, I find. (Pablo Picasso)
The special thing about art is the mystery it carries with it.
14. Life is a blank canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it that you can. (Danny Kaye)
A great reflection on how we should view life.
fifteen. Art does not reproduce what is visible but rather makes visible what is not always so. (Paul Klee)
That's why art connects more with our emotions than with logic.
16. The eye receives the same pleasure from painted beauty as from real beauty. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Beauty is not always what you see at first glance in reality.
17. The world is full of small joys: the art consists in knowing how to distinguish them. (Li Tai-Po)
Art is full of all those emotions that we are capable of feeling.
18. It is a great privilege to be able to work with my feelings (and also outside of them) through sculpture. (Louise Bourgeois)
How an artist uses his feelings for his work.
19. Any form of art is a form of power; it makes an impact, it can influence changes: it can not only change us, it makes us change. (Ossie Davis)
All art is impressive.
twenty. The true work of art is but a shadow of divine perfection. (Michelangelo)
A comparison between human and divine talent.
twenty-one. Love art. Of all the lies it is, at least, the least fallacious. (Gustave Flaubert)
In art there can be great hidden truths.
22. No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions and build their trust in the creative spirit. (Ansel Adams)
No one has the right to force anyone to do the job they think is right, but to encourage them to find their own way.
23. Art has a nice habit of spoiling all artistic theories. (Marcel Duchamp)
Art, by itself, is anarchist with its own nature.
24. The artist finds greater pleasure in painting than in contemplating the painting. (Seneca)
You don't always feel satisfaction with the finished product, but with the process you have.
25. I believe that a life dedicated to music is a life beautifully spent, and that is what I have dedicated mine to. (Luciano Pavarotti)
This is how we should love our jobs.
26. A sculpture is not just an image, it is many images. (Antonio López García)
A way to see the work and impact behind the sculptures.
27. The most beautiful experience I can have is mystery. It is the fundamental emotion that lies at the cradle of true art and true science. (Albert Einstein)
Mystery leads us to explore new limits.
28. The aim of art is not to represent the external appearance of things, but their inner meaning. (Aristotle)
Art reflects everything we are unable to observe.
29. Love art for its own sake and then everything else will be added to you. (Oscar Wilde)
Success is achieved by loving what you do.
30. Beauty is only visual, more real on film or in stone than in living three dimensions. (Naomi Wolf)
Beauty tends to be superficial.
31. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. (Frida Kahlo)
Everyone has their own way of seeing the reality in which they find themselves.
32. I'd rather be the number one painter of common things, than the second of the highest art. (Diego Velazquez)
Not all artists agreed with 'good taste' in art.
33. The good thing about cinema is that for two hours the problems belong to others. (Pedro Ruiz)
The cinema is a great distraction that helps us relax.
3. 4. The art consists of celebrating, singing and carrying out beauty. (B althasar Klossowski de Rola)
Beauty is exploited to its full potential through art.
35. You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. (George Bernard Shaw)
A great reference to art.
36. Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. (Marc Chagall)
What do you feel when you see a work of art?
37. Learning music by reading music theory is like making love through the mail. (Luciano Pavarotti)
Art is always half theoretical and half practical.
38. There is no beauty without something strange in its proportions. (Francis Bacon)
Beauty is imperfect.
39. Art derives from a person's desire to communicate with another. (Edvard Munch)
One of the beautiful things about any work is that it manages to connect people from different parts of the world.
40. Art is stronger than nature. (Tiziano Vecellio)
Although nature, by itself, is a great work of art.
41. Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Music is necessary for everyone.
42. All the sculptor's hand can do is break the spell and release the sleeping figures in the stone. (Miguel Angel)
You have to make the best of things.
43. Being creative means being in love with life. You can only be creative if you love life enough to want to increase its beauty, only if you want to bring it a little more music, a little more poetry, a little more dance. (Osho)
Life is the greatest of muses.
44. Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. (Thomas Merton)
The great reality of artists when they feel inspired.
Four. Five. Beautiful art is one in which the hand, the head and the heart go together. (ohn Ruskin)
A work is beautiful the more it reveals the essence of the artist himself.
46. In a flock of white doves, a black raven adds more beauty even than the innocence of a swan. (Giovanni Boccaccio)
What is different captures more attention, since it will always be striking.
47. I wanted to start a revolution, to use art to build the kind of society that I myself envisioned. (Yayoi Kusama)
Art can be a rallying cry or a call for attention.
48. I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. (Marcel Duchamp)
It is the artists who make the art.
49. If the inspiration does not come to me, I go out to meet it, halfway. (Sigmund Freud)
Inspiration never comes mystically, but rather when we seek it.
fifty. Art offers the promise of inner fulfillment. (Alain de Botton)
Making art can be very fulfilling.
51. Art is not a way to earn a living. It's more of a very humane way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, good or bad, is a way to make the soul grow. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Many artists cling to their art to be able to face life itself.
52. Treat a work of art like a prince. Let me talk to you first. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Never judge things at first sight.
53. With a large number of disordered strokes it is easy to create a landscape, but with disordered sounds no music is made. (Georg Ch. Lichtenberg)
The difference between two types of art.
54. All love poems are ridiculous. They wouldn't be love poems if they weren't ridiculous. (Fernando Pessoa)
Sometimes love makes us look foolish.
55. I see art and literature as a possible broadening of horizons towards freedom. (Joan Brossa)
Any artistic manifestation grants freedom to those who consume it.
56. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. (Man Ray)
Inspiration brings a very realistic product.
57. Sometimes you have to spoil the painting a little to be able to finish it. (Eugène Delacroix)
Not always things can have a straight course.
58. Art disturbs, science assures. (Georges Braque)
Art always manages to move us emotionally.
59. Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself realizes at the same time a certain obligation: because he knows that he cannot waste this talent, but that he must develop it. (Pope Juan Pablo II)
A divine vision of the artist's gift.
60. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. (Edgar Degas)
Sometimes, art is thought to provoke a reaction in the public.
61. Life beats and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Stella Adler)
Art is the maximum expression of the soul.
62. Art does not consist in representing new things, but in representing with novelty. (Ugo Foscolo)
There is always an element of novelty in every work of art.
63. I understand that an artist is someone who, among the silence of others, uses his voice to say something, and that he has the obligation that this is not something useless but something that provides a service to men. (Joan Miro)
Through art, many voices are heard.
64. Art is to comfort all those who are broken by life. (Vincent van Gogh)
A cathartic way of looking at art.
65. Whoever cultivates fantasy in art is a bit crazy. His problem is to make this madness interesting. (François Truffaut)
Well they say every artist has a little bit of madness in him.
66. Photography is a secret of a secret. The more he tells you, the less you know. (Diane Arbus)
Photography has the power to freeze thousands of stories in an instant.
67. “There are no rules for good photography, it's just good photography. (Ansel Adams)
They are all good pictures because they capture good moments.
68. There is no duty in art because art is free. (Wassily Kandinsky)
A maximum expression of freedom.
69. When I'm making art, I have absolutely no social responsibility whatsoever. It's like dreaming. (David Cronenberg)
Creation is giving shape to what is imagined.
70. Poetry is a weapon loaded with the future. (Gabriel Celaya)
Poetry is captivating and reflective.
71. Art is linked to what is not yet created. (Eduardo Chillida)
In art there is always the possibility of creating something new.
72. Art is memory. It is the memory of what we were. (Svetlana Alexievich)
Written in it is much of the history that we did not live, but that did exist.
73. Music is the most direct art, it enters through the ear and goes to the heart. (Magdalena Martinez)
Music has the ability to connect our body with the mind and soul.
74. Art can change how I feel in the morning. The same work can change me in different ways, it depends on what I'm going through. (David Bowie)
Sometimes, what we perceive of art is nothing more than the connection it has with what we feel at that moment.
75. Love art in yourself, more than you in art. (Konstantin Stanislavski)
Take pride in your ability to produce art.
76. There are always two people in each painting: the photographer and the viewer. (Ansel Adams)
In a photograph the spirit of the photographer also enters.
77. Telling the painter that nature must be taken as it is is like telling the pianist that he can sit on the piano. (James Whistler)
The creativity of an artist should never be limited, because a favorable result will not come out.
78. Aren't poets always on the side of justice? (Salvatore Quasimodo)
The poems connect with what many perceive of reality.
79. There are very beautiful emotions around us and in art, where they are the most intense, I do not accept mediocrity. There is art, not decorative art. Art is something rigorous, decorative art is not, it is superficial, rowdy. (Le Corbusier)
A clear rejection of decorative art considered 'perfect'.
80. When you start a painting it is something that is outside of you. When you finish it, it seems that you have installed yourself inside it. (Fernando Botero)
There is always something of the artist inside each work.