Art Quotes

"What is the life expectancy of an art product? Ten years? Twenty, thirty? Certainly never longer. I’m for clean sweeps. After each meal, brush away all the crumbs and set the table afresh. Are you really going to hang three-hundred-year-old steaks and muttons in your dining-room? Bon appetit!"- Jean Dubuffet

"Art, by it’s very essence, is of the new. And views on art must also be of the new. There is only one healthy diet for artistic creation: permanent revolution."- Jean Dubuffet

"Art is man determined to die sane." - Bernard DeVoto

"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places." - Paul Gardner

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." --Oscar Wilde

"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not." --Pablo Picasso

"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms." --Roy Lichtenstein

"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." --Paul Klee

"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Pablo Picasso

"We have art in order not to die of life." --Albert Camus

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." --George

"Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary." --Amedee Ozenfant

"There is no must in art because art is free." --Wassily Kandinsky

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." --Rene-Francois-Ghislain Magritte

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." --Edward Hopper