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| An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other specialists | | Anton Chekhov | |
| An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe, but the man who molds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
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| Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. | | Marcel Proust | |
| Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time | | Karl Marx | |
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| Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. | | François-Auguste Rodin | |
| Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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