1. The aim of art is to present not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance. - Aristotle

2. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. - Paul Valéry
3. In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage. - Roy Lichtenstein
4. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
5. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
6. A picture is a poem without words. - Horace
7. To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso
8. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas
9. A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
10. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso
11. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
12. Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. - Claude Monet
13. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso
14. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. - Georgia O'Keeffe
15. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Michelangelo
16. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch
17. Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon
19. The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. - Susan Sontag
20. Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas
21. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
22. There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky
23. I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
24. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner
25. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
26. The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist. - Ananda Coomaraswamy
27. If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
28. Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. - Banksy
29. To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut
30. The divine gift is perfect in it that it is given to all equally. - Leonardo da Vinci
31. Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. - Berthe Morisot
32. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy
33. Drawing takes time. A line has time in it. - David Hockney
34. Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard
35. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. - Pablo Picasso
36. The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon
37. Art is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt
38. Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. - Pablo Picasso
39. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
40. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
41. Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler
42. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
43. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy
44. Art is the highest form of hope. - Gerhard Richter
45. All art is but imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
46. I prefer painting people's eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral. - Vincent Van Gogh
47. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
48. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
49. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
50. The first rule states that God divides light from darkness, and the other rule states that oil and water don't mix. - Robert Rauschenberg
51. Art is the most beautiful of all lies. - Claude Debussy
52. Art is a harmony parallel with nature. - Paul Cezanne
53. Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills
54. When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway. - Winslow Homer
55. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
56. A picture is a poem without words. - Horace
57. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
58. Art is the highest form of hope. - Gerhard Richter
59. All art is but imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
60. I prefer painting people's eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral. - Vincent Van Gogh
61. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
62. Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
63. Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills
64. When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway. - Winslow Homer
65. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
66. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. - Pablo Picasso
67. Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse
68. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
69. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche
70. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp
71. The artist is the antenna of the race. - Ezra Pound
72. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Khalil Gibran
73. Art is the proper task of life. - Friedrich Nietzsche
74. The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. - Paul Strand
75. Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso
76. The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder. - Glenn Gould
77. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. - Leonardo da Vinci
78. Art is the highest form of hope. - Gerhard Richter
79. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Michelangelo
80. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
81. Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall
82. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde
83. The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Vincent Van Gogh
84. Art is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt
85. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso
86. All art is but imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
87. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. - Wassily Kandinsky
88. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
89. I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. - Pablo Picasso
90. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche
91. Art is the most beautiful of all lies. - Claude Debussy
92. When you start in art, the main thing is who you start with. The worst thing you can do is start with people who are making art because they want to sell it. - Roy Lichtenstein
93. A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
94. The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. - Robert Rauschenberg
95. Paint from your heart, not from your mind. - Jennifer Yane
96. Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard
97. Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali
98. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. - Gerhard Richter
99. Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
100. People have always been telling me what to draw, but I have never drawn what they wanted. I draw what I hear and what I feel in my soul. - Wassily Kandinsky
101. To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. - Max Ernst
102. Art is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt
103. Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. - Edgar Degas
104. I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. - Frida Kahlo
105. Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard
106. A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. - Eugene Ionesco
107. The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying anything else. - John Updike
108. The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. - Keith Haring
109. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
110. Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso
111. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
112. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
113. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
114. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
115. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
116. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
117. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
118. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
119. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
120. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
121. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
122. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
123. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
124. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
125. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
126. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
127. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
128. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
129. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
130. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
131. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
132. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
133. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
134. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
135. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
136. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
137. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
138. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
139. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
140. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
141. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
142. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
143. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
144. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
145. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
146. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
147. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
148. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci
149. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. - Theodore Dreiser
150. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. - Leonardo da Vinci