Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. - Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. - Unknown
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless. - Donald Barthelme
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock
Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch
Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into worlds. - Laurie Anderson
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? - Aldous Huxley
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again. - William Faulkner
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. - Ursula LeGuin
The artist does not really create; he discovers. - Lyman Abbott
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. - Lucius Seneca
The artist is a receptacle for the 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
That art is best which suggests most. - Austin O’Malley
The artist is justified by his art. - Lewis Foreman Day
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels. - E. E. Cummings
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