Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa
Great art picks up where nature ends.
—Marc Chagall
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
—Henri Matisse
Life is short, the art long.
—Hippocrates
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
—Lincoln Steffens
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
—Edward Steichen
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
—Robert Motherwell
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
—Havelock Ellis
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
—Philip Johnson
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
—Philip James Bailey
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
—Samuel Daniel
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
—James Huneker
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
—Alfred Sisley
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
—Joshua Reynolds
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
—Honoré de Balzac