73 Awe-Inspiring Quotes About Art - Teaching Expertise

Art has the power to inspire, captivate, and enrich our lives. It allows us to express ourselves, communicate our thoughts and feelings, and explore new worlds. To help ignite your students' passion for art, we've compiled a list of quotes about art that will spark their creativity and encourage them to appreciate the beauty of artistic expression.

1. "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." – Edgar Degas

2. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." – Pablo Picasso

3. "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." – Pablo Picasso

4. "Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse

5. "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." – Pablo Picasso

6. "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso

7. "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." – Twyla Tharp

8. "Art is not a thing, it is a way." – Elbert Hubbard

9. "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." – Thomas Merton

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

11. "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." – Michelangelo

12. "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." – Oscar Wilde

13. "Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one." – Stella Adler

14. "Every artist was first an amateur." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. "Art speaks where words are unable to explain." – Unknown

16. "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." – Leo Tolstoy

17. "The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own." – Brady Allen

18. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." – André Gide

19. "The earth without art is just 'eh'." – Unknown

20. "Art is a line around your thoughts." – Gustav Klimt

21. "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." – George Bernard Shaw

22. "To be an artist is to believe in life." – Henry Moore

23. "Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer." – Terri Guillemets

24. "A picture is a poem without words." – Horace

25. "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." – Banksy

26. "The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." – Pablo Picasso

27. "Art is the daughter of freedom." – Friedrich Schiller

28. "Art is the stored honey of the human soul." – Theodore Dreiser

29. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." – Henry Ward Beecher

30. "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament." – Oscar Wilde

31. "In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. "Art is the lie that tells the truth." – Jean Cocteau

33. "I dream my painting and I paint my dream." – Vincent van Gogh

34. "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht

35. "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." – Émile Zola

36. "Art is not a thing; it is a way." – Elbert Hubbard

37. "Art is the journey of a free soul." – Alev Oguz

38. "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

39. "Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing." – Julia Cameron

40. "Art is the signature of civilizations." – Beverly Sills

41. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams

42. "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." – Khalil Gibran

43. "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." – James Whistler

44. "In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred." – Auguste Rodin

45. "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." – Charles Horton Cooley

46. "Great art picks up where nature ends." – Marc Chagall

47. "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon." – Pablo Picasso

48. "Art is the proper task of life." – Friedrich Nietzsche

49. "An artist paints with his brains and not with his hands." – Michelangelo

50. "The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them." – Anton Chekhov

51. "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." – Francis Bacon

52. "Creativity is an act of defiance." – Twyla Tharp

53. "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing." – Marc Chagall

54. "Art is the triumph over chaos." – John Cheever

55. "Every canvas is a journey all its own." – Helen Frankenthaler

56. "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." – Friedrich Nietzsche

57. "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person." – Abraham Lincoln

58. "Art is never finished, only abandoned." – Leonardo da Vinci

59. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." – Robert Hughes

60. "The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." – Paul Strand

61. "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." – Leonardo da Vinci

62. "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." – Pablo Picasso

63. "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." – Pablo Picasso

64. "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better." – André Gide

65. "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist." – Robert Schumann

66. "The artist's vocation is to send light into the human heart." – George Sand

67. "The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds." – Jawaharlal Nehru

68. "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." – René Magritte

69. "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

70. "The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke." – Jerzy Kosinski

71. "Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht

72. "Art is to console those who are broken by life." – Vincent van Gogh

73. "Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist." – Seth Godin

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