Art disturbs, science reassures. - Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

Art is the struggle to understand. - Audrey Foris

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. - John Lubbock

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. - Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

Art is spirituality in drag. - Jennifer Yane

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. - Martin H. Fischer

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens

Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard

An artist's career always begins tomorrow. - James McNeill Whistler

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. - Edmond & Jules de Goncourt