These 10 of the best literary quotes about art will inspire you to visit your local art museum or create a piece of art yourself. Book lovers and art lovers will appreciate these best literary quotes about art.

10 Of The Best Literary Quotes About Art

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“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”―Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”―Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”―Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”―Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

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“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”―Oscar Wilde

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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”―Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”―Émile Zola

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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”―Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”―Edgar Degas

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