Tea Time Art Quotes | Endless Inspiration

Here you can find some of my favorite art related quotes. Personally I love quotes. I like to read and remember it, so I can repeat it in needed situation. As well as that I love to analyze it, think about significant quote and imagine what that person felt. Hope you will be inspired from it as I am.

“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
Henry A. Kissinger

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
Edgar Degas

“If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.”
Jeanette Winterson

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
Stella Adler

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
James Joyce

“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Jean Cocteu

“Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.”
Lewis Mumford

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”
Theodor Adorno

“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to force to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”
Marilyn Manson

“The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.”
Thom Mayne

“Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.” 
Duane Hanson

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” 
Elbert Hubbard

“A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.” 
Robert Engman

“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”
Doris Lessing

“For the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent molded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Originality is the art of concealing your source.”
Franklin P. Jones

“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.”
Jawaharlal Nehru

“My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.”
Beyonce Knowles

“Art is literacy of the heart” 
Elliot Eisner

“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” 
Marc Chagall

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” 
Rumi

“Art is a means to enter, to play with, to dance with, to wrestle with anything that intrigues, delights, disturbs, or terrifies us.”
Pat B. Allen

“One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.”
Donald Barthelme

“It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.”
Louis Auchincloss

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”
Tom Robbins

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
Alfred North Whitehead

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” 
Francis Bacon

“Art is but a mirror, which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only while unsullied.”
Eliza Cook

“The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.”
Edward Albee

“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” 
Vincent van Gogh

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing” 
Pablo Picasso