40 phrases about art that show how it is possible to express yourself through it

Art exists so that reality does not destroy us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All the arts contribute to the greatest of all arts, the art of living.

Art is the place of perfect freedom.

Art is a form of growth towards freedom, a path to life.

Fayga Ostrower

Only love and art make existence tolerable.

William Maugham

Art is the most intense form of individualism the world knows.

Art does not reproduce what we see. She makes us see.

Paul Klee

Science describes things as they are; art, how they feel, how they feel.

Fernando Pessoa

The purpose of art is to embody the secret essence of things, not to copy their appearance.

Aristotle

Music is the most perfect kind of art: it never reveals its last secret.

Oscar Wilde

Thousands of people cultivate music; but few have the revelation of this great art.

Beethoven

The supreme law of art is the representation of the beautiful.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is not a manual work, it is the transmission of feeling that the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Art begins where imitation ends.

Oscar Wilde

The artist’s job is to always delve into the mystery.

Francis Bacon

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.

Emile Zola

Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever

What is art if not the negation of life?

Fernando Pessoa

Life imitates art much more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Art is about making others feel what we feel.

Fernando Pessoa

Ballet is sculpture in motion.

Art exists because life is not enough.

Ferreira Gullar

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

Scott Adams

Art takes life as part of its raw material and recreates and remodels it.

Oscar Wilde

The painter has the universe in his mind and body.

Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty exists in everything, both good and bad. But only artists and poets know how to find it.

Charles Chaplin

The work of art is the happy result of continuous anguish.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

The artist’s job is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

B.C Forbes

The artist’s highest aim is to express the passions of the soul in the physiognomy and movements of the body.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is an instant of eternity and perfection.

V. Avelino

Man paints with his brain and not with his hands.

A work of art that did not begin in emotion is not art.

There is, in art, neither past nor future. Art that is not in the present will never be art.

Pablo Picasso

Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be significant.

There is no safer way to escape the world than art, and there is no safer way to join it than art.

Johann Goethe

Each of us stops time in search of the secret of life. The secret of life is in art.

Oscar Wilde

The greatness of a work of art lies fundamentally in its ambiguous character, which leaves the spectator to decide on its meaning.

Adornment

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Eric Gill

The essence of art is not in being, or looking beautiful, but in awakening the deepest recesses of human sensitivity.

Leonardo Horta