Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Art. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Art Quotes and Sayings from 95 influential authors, including Prerak Trivedi,Umberto Eco,Khalil Gibran,William Shakespeare,Seth Godin, for you to enjoy and share.

Art is to see beauty in everything you see everyday. By Prerak Trivedi Art Everyday Beauty

Art is a serious matter By Umberto Eco Art Matter

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown By Khalil Gibran Art Unknown Step

Less art, more matter By William Shakespeare Art Matter

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. By Seth Godin Art Work

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it. By Walt Disney Art

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing. By Francisco Costa Art Thing Live Excites Challenges

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. By Michael Leunig Senses Art World Messy Marvelous

Art is a sense of magic. By Stan Brakhage Art Magic Sense

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. By Edvard Munch Sorrow Art Grows Lives Joy

Art is spiritual. By John Cusack Art Spiritual

Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love! By Eleanora Duse Art Speak Love Explaining

Art is not just about what's great or expensive or scandalous or famous. It's a mirror we hold up that looks different to everyone who sees it, and whose beauty lies as much in us, and our capacity to dream ... By Michael Kimmelman Art Famous Great Expensive Scandalous

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? By Andre Dubus Art Concentrated Impassioned Effort Make

Art is not in some far-off place. By Lydia Davis Art Place Faroff

Making art is a journey. By Meinrad Craighead Making Journey Art

Art is an emotional experience By Tony Curtis Art Experience Emotional

Art is what we do when we're truly alive. By Seth Godin Art Alive

Art is a continuum. By Daryl Hall Art Continuum

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul's growth, to its unfoldment. By Lawren Harris Art Amusement Distraction Maintain Life

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. By Richard Wagner Art Conscious Purpose Make Unconscious

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. By David Alfaro Siqueiros Art Eyes Ears Feelings Weapon

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can. By Edward Bond Art Expression Conviction Rational Relationship

Art is the questioning of culture By Gerard Mortier Art Culture Questioning

Art is doing something you really believe in. By Ray Toro Art

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves. By Jay Woodman Art Imagined Expression Appreciation Beauty

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born. By Edmund Burke Art Born Partnership Living Dead

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. By Nathanael West Offerings Life Richest Art Create

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' By Edgar Allan Poe Art Nature Senses Define Briefly

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. By Georgia O'keeffe Art Things

Art's whatever you choose to frame. By Fleur Adcock Art Frame Choose

Art is the soul of a people. By Romare Bearden Art People Soul

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art. By Richard Avedon Art Level

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. By Destiny Allison Relationship Art Process Create Share

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent. By Brian Sewell Art Tent Walking Salmon Shoulder

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. By Nile Rodgers Art Opens Enhances Emotions

Art needs to stand for something. By Ai Weiwei Art Stand

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. By Agnes Martin Beauty Art Life Mystery Perfection

Art is coming face to face with yourself. By Jackson Pollock Art Face Coming

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers ... By Kelly Bingham Art Fingers Ment Travel Heart

Art is anything you can get away with. By Marshall Mcluhan Art

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. By Susanne Katherina Langer Invention Life Art Activity Exploration

Art is nature as seen through a temperament. By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Art Temperament Nature

Anything is art if an artist says it is. By Marcel Duchamp Art Artist

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works. By Ernest L. Boyer Essential Language Humanity Universal Art

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. By Auguste Rodin Art Soul Pleasure Spirit Enters

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. By Jerry Saltz Bad Boring Ugly Art Good

Art is man added to Nature. By Francis Bacon Nature Art Man Added

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness By Alan Moore Art Magic Symbols Words Consciousness

Art is good but it isn't the best. By Jose Bergamin Art Good

Art is about paying attention. By Laurie Anderson Art Attention Paying

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. By John Stuart Mill Art End Employent Powers Nature

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it. By Willa Cather People Art Psychological Makebelieve Reproduction

great is the art By Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Art

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. By Julianne Moore Art Expression Dream

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. By Max Beckmann Sake Art Realization Amusement Transfiguration

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. By Miguel De Unamuno Art Meaning Distills Sensations Embodies

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say. By Wayne Thiebaud Art Language Meanings Dirtiest Words

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. By Richard Prince Art Make Thoughts Unnamable Motors

Art is elimination of the unnecessary. By Waldo Salt Art Unnecessary Elimination

Art is inside of you; express yourself. By Christofer Drew Art Express Inside

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. By Julia Cameron Art Time Play Imagination Field

Art is the blood that comes from a wound. You can't let it scab; let it keep bleeding. Let it bleed until you have enough blood to paint with. By Tarryn Fisher Art Wound Blood Scab Bleeding

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. By Rebecca West Art Decoration Experience Reliving

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression. By Debasish Mridha Art Expression Passion Great Vision

Here, however, you made art because it was the only thing you've ever been good at, the only thing, really, you thought about between shorter bursts of thinking about the things everyone thought about: sex and food and sleep and friends and money and fame. But somewhere inside you, whether you were making out with someone in a bar or having dinner with your friends, was always your canvas, its shapes and possibilities floating embryonically behind your pupils. By Hanya Yanagihara Thought Thing Sex Fame Friends

Art is the essence of awareness. By John O'donohue Art Awareness Essence

Art is competitive. By Robert Duvall Art Competitive

Art is an expression of inner beauty. By Debasish Mridha Art Beauty Expression

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. By Dana Gioia Stories Songs Images Instructs Consoles

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. By Antoni Gaudi Nature Art

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine. By Ben Elliot Art Good Give Life Ultimate

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn. By Milton Avery Art Turn Turning Made Corners

Art, not unlike raising children ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you. By Michael Kimmelman Art Children Unlike Raising Despair

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth. By Allan Kaprow Art Call Avoid Endless Arguments

What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous? By Nenia Campbell Art Adventurous Excuse

Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly. By Jan Zwicky Art Honestly Decorative Enhancement Sign

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul. By Edward J. Fraughton Art Imaginary Soul Real Worlds

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. By James Joyce Art End Human Disposition Intelligible

Art does what reality cannot. By Jayme K. Art Reality

Art to me is a question mark. By Marilyn Manson Art Mark Question

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about. By Don Ed Hardy Art Drawn Making Pictures

Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self. By Alfred North Whitehead Great Refreshment Art Transient Permanent

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature. By Dennis Stock Art Life Wellarticulated Manifestation Aspect

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness. By Maria Popova Power Art Selfinterest Life Integrity

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. By Laura Pritchett Real Art Makes Reality Shortens

Art is basically entertainment, By Yasumasa Morimura Art Entertainment Basically

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. By Pablo Picasso Art Truth Understand Lie Makes

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. By Jose Clemente Orozco Knowledge Art Emotion Service

Everything is there: the love of Art. By Gustave Flaubert Art Love

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication ... is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts. By Marshall Mcluhan Ordered Experience Participation Communication Business

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. By Ansel Adams Art Beauty Spirit Taking Giving

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. By Fernando Botero Art Spiritual Immaterial Life Respite

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. By Paddy Mitchell Making Gift Evidence Art Giving

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user, By William Morris People Art User Made Joy

Art depends on luck and talent. By Francis Ford Coppola Art Talent Depends Luck

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it. By Billy Al Bengston Art Teach Inspire

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case. By Lucian Freud Work Art Pictures Felt Admirations

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. By Claes Oldenburg Communication Art Technique Image Complete

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius. By Edward J. Fraughton Art Understanding Time Supreme Communicator