- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. —Gustave Flaubert
- Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. —Frank Lloyd Wright
- Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. —Harry S. Truman
- A great artist is always before his time or behind it. —George Edward Moore
- Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —Al Capp
- So vast is art, so narrow human wit. —Alexander Pope
- True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. —Albert Einstein
- The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. —Abraham Lincoln
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. —Oscar Wilde
- In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. —Salvador Dali
- Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. —Edgar Degas
- In art the best is good enough. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. —Michelangelo
14 quotes about Art
