UNESCO has proclaimed April 15 as World Art Day, a celebration to promote the development, diffusion, and enjoyment of art. It spans the whole spectrum of visual and performing arts. The date was chosen in honour of Leonardo da Vinci, who was born on April 15, 1452. <\/p>\n
Many galleries now have online viewings, and artists are resorting even more to social media for showcasing their offerings. Musicians are streaming their works online, collaborating across the internet, and teaching classes through videoconferencing. Memes and cartoons are cropping up around the world, showcasing the lighter and darker sides of the crisis.<\/p>\n
During the extended lockdown, billions of citizens around the world are flocking online to watch movies, listen to music, and read books. Citizens themselves have become amateur artists by sharing videos of their creative works ranging from cooking and dancing to drawings and graphic art.<\/p>\n
This compilation of quotes salutes the professional and amateur artists around the world in this time of unprecedented crisis. The quotes reflect gratitude to the artistic and humanistic spirit in each of us, and reinforce the importance of creativity, hope, and compassion in these dark hours.<\/p>\n
The quotes in this compilation are drawn from YourStory's articles on art as well as a range of online resources. The photographs are chosen from our weekend PhotoSparks section on art and design. See also our compilations of quotes on the occasion of World Book Day, International Jazz Day, and World Photography Day, as well as Top Quotes of 2019 on Design and Art.<\/p>\n
A picture is a poem without words. - Horace<\/p>\n
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington <\/p>\n
A societys competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity. - Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others. - Salvador Dal<\/p>\n
A true masterpiece does not tell everything. - Albert Camus<\/p>\n
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done. - Henri Matisse<\/p>\n
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. - Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Cooley<\/p>\n
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. - Andre Malraux<\/p>\n
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana<\/p>\n
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James Whistler<\/p>\n
An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success. - Henri Matisse<\/p>\n
An empty canvas is the safest addiction in the world, art is the only drug that won't kill you, instead it'll save your life. - Nikki Rowe<\/p>\n
Art doesnt have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful. - Duane Hanson<\/p>\n
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton<\/p>\n
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. - Ren Magritte<\/p>\n
Art has a voice - let it speak. - Rochelle Carr<\/p>\n
Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of we - from the local to the global. - Olafur Eliasson<\/p>\n
Art is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt<\/p>\n
Art is a step in the known toward the unknown. - Kahlil Gibran<\/p>\n
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. - Georges Braque<\/p>\n
Art is never finished, only abandoned. - Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. - Leon Trotsky<\/p>\n
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas<\/p>\n
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. - Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp<\/p>\n
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. - Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n
As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life. - John Lubbock<\/p>\n
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. - Banksy<\/p>\n
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
Art wasnt supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something. - Rainbow Rowell<\/p>\n
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. - Al Hirschfeld<\/p>\n
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life. - Agnes Martin<\/p>\n
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro<\/p>\n
Bring your humanity to your art. Bring your art to humanity. - Maxime Lagac<\/p>\n
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams<\/p>\n
Do not be afraid of being wrong; just be afraid of being uninteresting. - T. Carl Whitmer <\/p>\n
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. - Miles Davis<\/p>\n
Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. - Pandit Ravi Shankar<\/p>\n
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher<\/p>\n
Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me. - Salvador Dal<\/p>\n
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
Finish the work, otherwise an unfinished work will finish you. - Amit Kalantri<\/p>\n
Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall<\/p>\n
Have no fear of perfection, youll never reach it. - Salvador Dal<\/p>\n
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh<\/p>\n
I paint and sculpt with the blues. - John Hammond<\/p>\n
I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin<\/p>\n
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet<\/p>\n
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola<\/p>\n
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper<\/p>\n
If music is a place - then jazz is the city, folk is the wilderness, rock is the road, classical is a temple. - Vera Nazarian<\/p>\n
If you dont make mistakes, you arent really trying. - Coleman Hawkins<\/p>\n
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville<\/p>\n
Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see. - Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n
Life is a lot like jazz, its best when you improvise. - George Gershwin<\/p>\n
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen<\/p>\n
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. - William Christopher Handy<\/p>\n
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n
No great work of art is ever finished. - Michelangelo<\/p>\n
One persons craziness is another persons reality. - Tim Burton<\/p>\n
Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas<\/p>\n
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch<\/p>\n
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Thelonious Monk<\/p>\n
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.- Aristotle<\/p>\n
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. - Wassily Kandinsky<\/p>\n
The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of. - Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. - Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n
The earth has music for those who listen. - William Shakespeare<\/p>\n
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche<\/p>\n
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. - Marina Abramovic<\/p>\n
The great artist is the simplifier. - Vincent Van Gogh<\/p>\n
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us. - Alain de Botton<\/p>\n
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon<\/p>\n
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
The most creative people are willing to work in the shadow of uncertainty. - Ed Catmull <\/p>\n
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artists own spiritual nature. - George Inness<\/p>\n
The world always seems brighter when youve just made something that wasnt there before. - Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse<\/p>\n
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. - Helen Frankenthaler<\/p>\n
There are paintings that take on a life of their own, and do not allow you to finish them. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz<\/p>\n
To be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore<\/p>\n
To be great, art has to point somewhere. - Anne Lamott<\/p>\n
To create, one must first question everything. - Eileen Gray<\/p>\n
To draw you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike<\/p>\n
When Im playing, Im never through. Its unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. Thats where the high comes in. - Miles Davis<\/p>\n
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin<\/p>\n
When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them. - Don Cherry<\/p>\n
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