Art and leisure quotes

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Alexander Smith

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Henri Matisse

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

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

John Ruskin

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Henri Matisse

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Kary Mullis

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

John Ruskin

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor W. Adorno

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Roy Lichtenstein

Art begins with resistance, at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valéry

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Edgard Varese

An artist is always alone, if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

An artist cannot fail, it is a success to be one.

Charles Horton Cooley

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Marshall McLuhan

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Oscar Wilde

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Hedy Lamarr

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus