The Art Quotes
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.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity...
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.
Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.
For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.
For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold, so the intellect degenerates without exercise.-Leonard Da Vinci
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.
Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of
The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
