Art Quotes
In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!
If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.
Ha! spring arrived on her sweet scented palanquin, carried by the spirited Zephyrus and his coir with their murmuring music undulated in its own softness and fondled the leaves to astir.
Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.
Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.
If you’re going to be an artist, you’ve got to make your work your best friend, that you can go to whatever you’re feeling, and have a conversation with it.
All art forms possess liberty beyond space and time, yet grounded by urgency of now, and a breath of truth.
We are all creative beings. The act of creating puts us in direct connection with the greatest creator. The master artist that is our Divine Creator.
Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.
You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.
... and I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries.
I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.
I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me
The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".
It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.
I see football as an art and all players are artists.If you are a top artist, the last thing you would do is paint a picture somebody else has already painted.
The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists.
When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.
I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.
I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth.
If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.
The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...
That’s what great art does—that’s why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Oh, is that all you’re looking forward to - a break from your studies?” He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.
I don’t want to sit there and be like, ‘Oh, I don’t care what the audience thinks.’ It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.
Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.
Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.
This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind
I think Temple is wrong. I don't think I'd dig that kind of art party at all.
In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances
Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning.
Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.
Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime, " Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.
Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.