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A Select Collection of Quotes on Art

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Emile Zola: Quotes on Art
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Max Eastman: Quotes on Art
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Francis Bacon: Quotes on Art
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Michelangelo: Quotes on Art
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Vincent Van Gogh: Quotes on Art
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quotes on Art
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Michelangelo: Quotes on Art
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Wassily Kandinsky: Quotes on Art
There is no must in art because art is free.

Henri Matisse: Quotes on Art
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Bob Rodale: Quotes on Art
To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

Henry David Thoreau: Quotes on Art
To enhance the quality of the day... that is the highest of the arts.

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Quotes on Art
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life.

Thomas Berger: Quotes on Art
What is art but a way of seeing?

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