W. Somerset Maugham best Art Quotes – “The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
Donald Judd best Art Quotes – “Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”
J. Paul Getty best Art Quotes – “My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.”
Marshall McLuhan best Art Quotes – “Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Balthus best Art Quotes – “One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.”
Marvin Gaye best Art Quotes – “Great artists suffer for the people.”
Jasper Johns best Art Quotes – “I am not strong on perfection.”
Agnes Martin best Art Quotes – “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”
Leo Tolstoy best Art Quotes – “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe best Art Quotes – “The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
Theodor W. Adorno best Art Quotes – “Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Pablo Picasso best Art Quotes – “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.”
Paul Cezanne best Art Quotes – “When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”
Khalil Gibran best Art Quotes – “Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton best Art Quotes – “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”