Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
- Robert Motherwell
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci
There is no must in art because art is free.
- Wassily Kandinsky
The secret of life is in art.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
Bad artists always admire each others work.
- Oscar Wilde
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else.
- Michael Vitale
All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the proper task of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
- Eric Gill
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
- Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen
Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.
- Peter C. Wilson
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- Vincent van Gogh
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent van Gogh
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde
It is through art and through art only that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
- Oscar Wilde
