Top 100 Art Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If I don't have red, I use blue.”

— Pablo Picasso

52. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.”

— William Shakespeare

53. “Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”

— Robert Fripp

54. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

55. “Art is a way of survival.”

— Yoko Ono

56. “Art is the proper task of life. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

57. “Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

58. “I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.”

— Bob Ross

59. “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

— Rumi

60. “It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

61. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

— Pablo Picasso

62. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

63. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

64. “Art is my life and my life is art.”

— Yoko Ono

65. “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

66. “No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

67. “There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.”

— Isaac Asimov

68. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

69. “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

70. “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

— Frida Kahlo

71. “Doubt is only removed by action. If you’re not working then that’s when doubt comes in.”

— Conor McGregor

72. “Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

73. “To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”

— Bruce Lee

74. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

— William Blake

75. “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”

— Marcus Aurelius

76. “The way is in training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

77. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

— Henri Matisse

78. “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.”

— Florence Nightingale

79. “Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

80. “The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “Truth exists; only lies are invented.”

— Georges Braque

82. “Art never comes from happiness.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

83. “The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

84. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

— Confucius

85. “There are people who focus on the game and forget about the art. There’s that specific special individual who can do both.”

— Conor McGregor

86. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

— Sun Tzu

87. “Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”

— Sigmund Freud

88. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

89. “I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.”

— David Ogilvy

90. “The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.”

— Alan Watts

91. “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

92. “Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.”

— Immanuel Kant

93. “When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

— George Orwell

94. “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

— Paracelsus

95. “Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.”

— Salvador Dalí

96. “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

— Hippocrates

97. “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

— Voltaire

98. “You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.”

— Leonard Cohen

99. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

— Albert Einstein

100. “For an artist, to be normal is a disaster.”

— Jonas Mekas