"One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth."
Read quote
6 likes
Art quotes
Art
22.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Art
Browse quotes that often appear alongside art — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Art quotes (page 198 of 1107)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment."
Read quote
6 likes
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome."
Read quote
6 likes
"You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself."
Read quote
6 likes
"I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it."
Read quote
6 likes
"I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative."
Read quote
6 likes
"Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life."
Read quote
6 likes
"What is art? Nature concentrated."
Read quote
6 likes
"The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm."
Read quote
6 likes
"Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch."
Read quote
6 likes
"Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture."
Read quote
6 likes
"I was really inspired by seeing self published zines and mini-comics: seeing someone else make work that was either really personal, or was just done entirely themselves. It really showed me what was possible for my own art, and I hope that my books will inspire readers in the same way."
Read quote
6 likes
"What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements."
Read quote
6 likes
"He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery."
Read quote
6 likes
"My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living."
Read quote
6 likes
"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."
Read quote
6 likes
"The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world."
Read quote
6 likes
"I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego."
Read quote
6 likes
"A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life."
Read quote
6 likes
"People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it."
Read quote
6 likes