Art Quotes

It is through art and through art only that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
- Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent van Gogh

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
- Vincent van Gogh

Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.
- Peter C. Wilson

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
- Woody Allen