Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Art. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Art Quotes And Sayings by 94 Authors including Khalil Gibran,William Shakespeare,Seth Godin,Walt Disney,Francisco Costa for you to enjoy and share.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown -- Khalil Gibran

Less art, more matter -- William Shakespeare

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

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

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing. -- Francisco Costa

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

Art is a sense of magic. -- Stan Brakhage

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. -- Edvard Munch

Art is spiritual. -- John Cusack

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

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 ... -- Michael Kimmelman

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see? -- Andre Dubus

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

Making art is a journey. -- Meinrad Craighead

Art is an emotional experience -- Tony Curtis

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

Art is a continuum. -- Daryl Hall

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. -- Lawren Harris

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. -- Richard Wagner

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. -- David Alfaro Siqueiros

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. -- Edward Bond

Art is the questioning of culture -- Gerard Mortier

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

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. -- Jay Woodman

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. -- Edmund Burke

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

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.' -- Edgar Allan Poe

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

Art's whatever you choose to frame. -- Fleur Adcock

Art is the soul of a people. -- Romare Bearden

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art. -- Richard Avedon

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves. -- Destiny Allison

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. -- Brian Sewell

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

Art needs to stand for something. -- Ai Weiwei

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. -- Agnes Martin

Art is coming face to face with yourself. -- Jackson Pollock

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers ... -- Kelly Bingham

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

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. -- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Anything is art if an artist says it is. -- Marcel Duchamp

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul. -- Auguste Rodin

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. -- Jerry Saltz

Art is man added to Nature. -- Francis Bacon

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness -- Alan Moore

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

Art is about paying attention. -- Laurie Anderson

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end. -- John Stuart Mill

great is the art -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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. -- Max Beckmann

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. -- Miguel De Unamuno

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. -- Wayne Thiebaud

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. -- Richard Prince

Art is elimination of the unnecessary. -- Waldo Salt

Art is inside of you; express yourself. -- Christofer Drew

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. -- Julia Cameron

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. -- Tarryn Fisher

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. -- Rebecca West

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression. -- Debasish Mridha

Art is the essence of awareness. -- John O'donohue

Art is competitive. -- Robert Duvall

Art is an expression of inner beauty. -- Debasish Mridha

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. -- Dana Gioia

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. -- Antoni Gaudi

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. -- Ben Elliot

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn. -- Milton Avery

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

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. -- Allan Kaprow

What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous? -- Nenia Campbell

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

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

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. -- James Joyce

Art does what reality cannot. -- Jayme K.

Art to me is a question mark. -- Marilyn Manson

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

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. -- Dennis Stock

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. -- Maria Popova

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. -- Laura Pritchett

Art is basically entertainment, -- Yasumasa Morimura

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand. -- Pablo Picasso

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. -- Jose Clemente Orozco

Everything is there: the love of Art. -- Gustave Flaubert

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. -- Marshall Mcluhan

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. -- Ansel Adams

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. -- Fernando Botero

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. -- Paddy Mitchell

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user, -- William Morris

Art depends on luck and talent. -- Francis Ford Coppola

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

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. -- Claes Oldenburg

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. -- Edward J. Fraughton

Art accepts what it finds. -- Frederick Sommer

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness. -- Ayn Rand

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. -- Jerry Saltz

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. -- Childe Hassam

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses. -- Kenneth Rexroth

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think -- Nick Cannon

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. -- Sergei Bongart