Quotes about art

I was and remain as a person and as a prime minister an optimist. Politics may be the art of the possible but at least in life give the impossible a go.

Tony Blair

I’m actually 100% independent. I’m not a Universal artist. I’m signed to myself.

Drake

Abstract art is only painting. And what’s so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

Pablo Picasso

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Bruce Lee

The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.

Charlie Chaplin

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution.

Will Durant

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Aristotle

All art is subversive.

Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Pablo Picasso