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| Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. | | Aristotle | |
| Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. | | Ingrid Bergman | |
| Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. | | John Ruskin | |
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| For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. | | George Jean Nathan | |
| Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men | | John Ruskin | |
| Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. | | Edith Hamilton | |
| Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. | | Albert Einstein | |
| I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture. | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter... | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people | | Vincent van Gogh | |
| I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. | | Pablo Picasso | |
