Best Art Quotes

• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Design

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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• 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 Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

  Kanye West

  Art, Oxford, Goal

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Honesty, Drawing

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Dust, Soul

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

  Salvador Dali

  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Good Business

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Real, May

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• The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Football, Art, Fields

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.

  Travis Nichols

  Art, Thinking, Mind

  "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Differences, People

  Norman Rockwell (1994). “Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces”, Outlet

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• Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, People, Enemy

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Art, Thinking, All The Best

  "Wolfgang Puck: 'Cooking is like painting'". Interview with Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2009.

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• The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Self

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• Seventh-Gay Adventists isn't just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue of homosexuality. It's also a beautifully-filmed and artfully-conceived movie. It does what the best art does - it 'humanizes the other.' You should see it, and when you do, you'll encourage others to see it as well.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Art, Gay, Issues

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• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Nice, Surprise

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• When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

  Micah Perks

  Art, College, Two

  "Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry". Interview with Zoë Ruiz, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.

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• The best art always comes unbidden.

  Christopher Pike

  Art

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Land really is the best art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Nature, Land

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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