It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Nature is the art of God.
Creativity takes courage.
Beauty will save the world.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Everything you can imagine is real.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Art is to be free. Design is to fix.
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from many, it's research.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
No great work of art is ever finished.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Art is an escape from reality.
Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge
to all the generations of the world.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things
which always become ugly with time.
The art is long, life is short.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,
and the less the artist does the better.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
Painting is not the only art.
What impresses us is art, and there is also music that can be called art.
