Creative Quotes of Art and Beauty

Great art can leave you speechless or inspire novels. It’s an excepted and timeless understanding that a single image can convey a plethora of complex ideas. So, I got to wondering…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are a thousand words of wisdom worth? Following are a few of my favorite quotes about art, artists and beauty – words for consideration, contemplation and inspiration.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” - John Keats

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” - Gertrude Stein

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” - E.B. White

“An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision.” - James McNeill Whistler

“An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.” - Auguste Renoir

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” - J.D. Salinger

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.” - William Blake

“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” - Roy Lichtenstein

“Art has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival.” - C.S. Lewis

“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.” - David Hockney

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” - Andre Gide

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.” - John Ruskin

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas

“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty” - Paul Gauguin

“Art washes from the soul the dust of every day life.” - Pablo Picasso

“Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.” - Anish Kapoor

“As artists our job is to keep the faith and help humankind to remember beauty and thus the promise of happiness.” - Todd Plough

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” - James McNeil Whistler

“Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.” - Munshi Premchand

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.” - Khalil Gibrain

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” - John Keats

“Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming duelism.” - Matthew Fox

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