Top 496 Art Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

Ron Perlman

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Steven Wright

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.

Justin Cartwright

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

Robert Stromberg

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Tim Cahill

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Camille Claudel

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

Barbara Goldsmith

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

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