Words on Art by Famous Artists from Art History

The following are short extracts from the writings of famous artists through out art history. Click on the artist listed for a collection of quotes by that artist. Back to Art History Main Page.

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519, Painting and Sculpture
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475 - 1564, Painting and Sculpture
Nicolas Poussin, 1594 - 1665, Painting
Jacques-Louis David, 1748 - 1825, Painting
Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, 1780 - 1867, Painting
Eugene Delacroix, 1796 - 1863, Painting
William Blake, 1757 - 1827, Painting
John Constable, 1776 - 1837, Painting
Gustave Courbet, 1819 - 1877, Painting
Alfred Sisley, 1839 - 1899, Painting
Claude Monet, 1840 - 1926, Painting
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841 - 1919, Painting
Auguste Rodin, 1840 - 1917, Sculpture
James A McNeill Whistler, 1834 - 1903, Painting
Paul Cézanne, 1839 - 1906, Painting
Paul Gauguin, 1848 - 1903, Painting
Vincent Van Gogh, 1870 - 1943, Painting
Henri Matisse, 1869, Painting
Pablo Picasso, 1881, Painting
Georges Braque, 1881, Painting
Piet Mondrian, 1872 - 1944, Painting
Marc Chagall, 1887, Painting
Giorgio De Chirico, 1888, Painting
Paul Klee, 1879 - 1940, Painting
Franz Marc, 1880 - 1916, Painting
Max Beckmann, 1884, Painting
Wassily Kandinsky, 1866 - 1944, Painting
Jacop Epstein, 1880, Painting