Art Quotes

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

- John Dewey

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

- Amy Lowell

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

- Edith Wharton

Art is anything you can get away with.

- Marshall McLuhan

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

- Jerzy Kosinski

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

- Pablo Picasso

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

- Chinua Achebe

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

- Edgar Degas

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

- Pablo Picasso

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

- Leonardo da Vinci