Art Quotes

The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Philip found that a discussion on art was raging. Lawson, whom he had met at luncheon, sat opposite to him. He was a thin youth with a freckled face and red hair. He had very bright green eyes. As Philip sat down he fixed them on him and remarked suddenly: “Raphael was only tolerable when […]

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.