“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
— Paul Cezanne

“Man is no longer an artist,
he has become a work of art.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In order to be created, a work of art must first
make use of the dark forces of the soul.”
— Albert Camus

“That’s the beauty of art – we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.”
— Rafe Esquith

“Art is creative for the sake of realization,
not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey
we must all make.”
— Max Beckmann

“All great art has madness,
and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”
— William Saroyan

“So be wise. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would. Now go, and make interesting mistakes. Make Interesting. Mistakes. Make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here. Make good art.”
— Neil Gaiman

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”
— Charles Baudelaire

“The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and
refresh the language.”
— Steve Turner

“In the arts, as in life, everything is possible
provided it is based on love.”
— Marc Chagall

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing
as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse
for making a useless thing is that one admires
it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
— Oscar Wilde

“Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
— W. Somerset Maugham

“Beauty, and the desire to possess it,
has driven men mad for centuries.”
— Hannah Rothschild

“Without art, we should have no notion
of the sacred; without science, we should
always worship false gods.”
— W. H. Auden

“There’s no retirement for an artist,
it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.”
— Henry Moore

“If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing.”
— Glenn Gould

“Technique is just a means of
arriving at a statement.”
— Jackson Pollock