Famous Art Quotes

Art inspires life. Art speaks a language of its own. Through murals, frescoes, paintings, sculptures, and portraits, art has expanded our horizons. You need not be a connoisseur to appreciate a beautiful painting. Art reaches out to everyone through visual expression. Here are some famous art quotes. Get inspired to pick up your paintbrush and palette.

• Brett Whiteley
  Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work at the tissue between truth and paranoia.

• Edward Hopper
  If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

• Francis Bacon
  The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

• Michelangelo
  If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

• Pablo Picasso
  As a child, I dew like Raphael but it has taken me a lifetime to draw like a child.

• Pablo Picasso
  Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

• Pablo Picasso
  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

• Francis Bacon
  Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.

• Paul Gardner
  A painting is never finished -- it simply stops in interesting places.

• Paul Gauguin
  I shut my eyes in order to see.

• Rachel Wolf
  Colour is fun, colour is just plain gorgeous, a gourmet meal for the eye, the window of the soul.

• Frank Zappa
  Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

• Lucian Freud
  The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

• Marc Chagall
  Great art picks up where nature ends.

• Paul Cezanne
  There is a logic of colours, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

• Robert Delaunay
  Painting is by nature a luminous language.