Art quotations

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◆ The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ Personality is everything in art and poetry.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe99

◆ This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh99

◆ Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike99

◆ No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

- Georgia O'Keeffe99

◆ The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

- Michelangelo99

◆ Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

- Salvador Dali99

◆ Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

- Edgar Degas99

◆ The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

- Pablo Picasso99

◆ The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato99

◆ A picture is a poem without words.

- Horace99

◆ So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

- Alexander Pope99