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| Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. | | William Blake | |
| Art is too serious to be taken seriously. | | Ayn Rand | |
| Art never improves, but . . . the material of art is never quite the same. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. | | Aristotle | |
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| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? | | Ludwig van Beethoven | |
| Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. | | Gustave Flaubert | |
| Bad artists always admire each others work. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art | | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | | Scott Adams | |
| Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. | | Havelock Ellis | |
| Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. | | Pablo Picasso | |
