1. Art does not transcend nature, but it can make nature more beautifying. ——Cervantes

2. Art is not a skill, it is the communication of emotions experienced by the artist. ——Leo Tolstoy

3. The success of art lies in the fact that there are no traces of artificial carving. ——Ovid

4. The enemy of art is ignorance. - Cy Johnson

5. The first purpose of art is to reproduce reality. ——Chernyshevsky

6. The foundation of art lies in moral personality. ——Ruskin

7. The great significance of art basically lies in its ability to show people's true feelings, the mystery of inner life and the passionate world. ——Romain Rolland

8. Art gives us wings and takes us to places far, far away. —— (Russian) Chekhov

9. Art is long-lasting, but life is short. ——UK

10. Art may have fallacies, but nature never makes mistakes. —— (UK) Dryden

11. The artist has a dual relationship with nature: he is both the master of nature and the slave of nature. ——Goethe

12. Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. ——Chesterton

13. Art is rare - it will not turn a blind eye to you because you are a commoner, nor will it favor you because you are a prince. Even the wisest man cannot make a work of art come into being before the time comes. ——Whistler

14. Art is the treasure house of virtue. ——Balzac

15. Art makes nature more perfect. ——Reynolds

16. Art promotes life. Where death is, there is no art. ——Romain Rolland

17. Art is the transmission of emotions. ——Leo Tolstoy

18. Art is the catharsis of noble sentiments. —— Moore

19. Art is a living science. —— Cocteau

20. Art is a spiritual and material struggle. ——Zong Baihua

21. Art is human nature. ——Burke

22. Art is the mirror of life. ——Leo Tolstoy

23. Art is an assumption that allows us to achieve reality. ——Picasso

24. Art is a kind of enjoyment, the most charming enjoyment among all enjoyments. ——(France) Romain Rolland

25. Art should bear the responsibility of nurturing thoughts. —— Browning

26. Art and science are different but related to each other; they meet in the aesthetic aspect. —— Croce

27. Art is far less important than life, but without art, life would be very poor. ——Africa

28. The art of art, the brilliance of words, and the brilliance of literature are all contained in simplicity. ——Whitman

29. Art belongs to the ancient world, and science belongs to the modern world. —— Disraeli

30. Music is the art of life. —— Strauss

31. In a work of art, the most meaningful part is the personality other than technique. ——Lin Yutang

32. In the real field of art, there is no preparatory school, but there is a best preparation method, which is to have the most humble apprenticeship interest in the works of artistic masters. People who grind paint in this way often become excellent painters. ——Goethe

33. Really express nature, but still full of artistic beauty. ——Cha Churchill

34. Only works written with emotion can move people emotionally. ——S.T. Coleridge

35. The beauty of painting lies in the balance between similarity and dissimilarity. Too much likeness is kitsch, but not likeness is deceiving the world. Those who learn from me will live, those who resemble me will die. ——Qi Baishi

36. A great poem is like a fountain, always spouting water of wisdom and joy.

——Shelley

37. All art and religion are nothing but natural appendages. ——Aristotle

38. A writer explains less truth than others, just because he tells more truth. This is an eternal law. ——Macaulay

39. Enter through the door and break out. ——Xu Linlu

40. Look for real models in life and customs, and absorb language that is true to life. ——Horace

41. The most beautiful thing we experience is mystery, which is the source of all true art and science. ——Einstein

42. Our art should stand higher than reality, and should keep people from reality but be higher than reality. ——Gorky

43. The real mission of literature is to make feelings visible. ——Tyner

44. Great works of art are not as disappointing as life. They are not like life, which always gives us all the best things at the beginning. ——Marcel Proust

45. Great art has always been the most decorative value. —— Maugham

46. Art for art’s sake is no more meaningful than drinking for the sake of drinking. —— Somerset Maugham

47. Perfection does not mean that there is nothing to add, but that there is nothing to subtract. —— Antoine de Saint Exupery

48. If it is too life-oriented, there will be no art. ——Ai Xiansheng

49. Poetry is derived from reality through imagination. It is not just reality, nor just imagination. ——Dai Wangshu

50. Poetry is the queen of art. - Thomas Spratt

51. The mystery of life lies in art. ——Wilde

52. Any beautiful work of art cannot be without small flaws, but true beauty can certainly cover up these small flaws. ——Gardiner

53. An artist who lacks hospitality is like a painter who has no paint. ——Barry

54. Poverty is the mother of all artistic professions. ——Toriano

55. Shoot works with weight and depth: You might as well lock in a theme and spend a lifetime shooting it! —— Sanm Abel

56. Once art breaks away from reality, it will become absurd even if it does not perish. - Thomas Carlyle

57. Beauty is the purpose and driving force of art. ——Goncharov

58. Whenever an artist passes away, some human illusions also pass away. ——Roosevelt

59. Every masterpiece is the product of passion. ——Disraeli

60. Without thinking and sorrow, there would be no literature. ——Lu Xun