Art Quotes
He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.
Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!
Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.
The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth.
Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.
The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.
Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.