Art Quotes

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
- Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
- Eric Gill

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde

I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin

Art is the proper task of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker