Art Quotes - Page 31

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.

Long before being artists, we are artisans; and all fabrication, however rudimentary, lives on likeness and repetition, like the natural geometry which serves as its fulcrum. Fabrication works on models which it sets out to reproduce; and even when it invents, it proceeds, or imagines itself to proceed, by a new arrangement of elements already known. Its principle is that “we must have like to produce like.” In short, the strict application of the principle of finality, like that of the principle of mechanical causality, leads to the conclusion that “all is given.” Both principles say the same thing in their respective languages, because they respond to the same need.

Henri Bergson

We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or religion or our peers, but no one can say what truly matters except us.

Teresa R. Funke

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

G.K. Chesterton

It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling

A drawing is a translation. That is to say each mark on the paper is consciously realted, not only to the real or imagined "model", but also to every mark and space already set out on the paper. Thus a drawn or painted image is woven together by the energy (or the lassitude, wen the drawing is weak) of countless judgements [sic]. Every time a figuration is evoked in a drawing, everything about it has been mediated by consciousness, either intuitively or systematically.

John Berger

My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

Leela Corman

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

Teresa R. Funke

It's the sketch Edward did of me before he went away, the one he said was fine but didn't want to keep. It's as if he's drawn me not once but twice. In the main drawing I have my head turned to the right. It's so detailed, you can see the tautness of my neck muscles and the arch of my clavicle. But underneath or over that there's a second drawing, barely more than a few jagged, suggestive lines, done with a surprising energy and violence: my head turned the other way, my mouth open in a kind of snarl. The two heads pointing in opposite directions give the drawing a disturbing sense of movement.Which one's the pentimento, and which the finished thing? And why did Edward say there was nothing wrong with it? Did he not want me to see this double image for some reason?

J.P. Delaney

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.

Clarice Lispector

if nothing endswhere do we begin?

Natasha Tsakos

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

Natasha Tsakos

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

Kamand Kojouri

sacred knowledge of the cosmos seems to be hidden within our souls and is shown within our artwork and creative expressions.

Nikki Shiva

One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode.

Dean Francis Alfar

In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

Teresa R. Funke

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.

Benjamin Wood

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.

Nithin Purple

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means,Than a sublime art frivolously.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

Mitch Albom

It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's sardonic, a moment later it's generous again.

Ali Smith

When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Madeleine L'Engle

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

Ashley Earley

...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity...

Dean Koontz

But now, inside the gallery, something happens to him. He finds his emotions gripped by the paintings, the huge, colorful canvases by Diego Rivera, the tiny, agonized self-portraits by Frida Kahlo, the woman Rivera loved. Fabien barely notices the crowds that cluster in front of the pictures.He stops before a perfect little painting in which she has pictured her spine as a cracked column. There is something about the grief in her eyes that won't let him look away. That is suffering, he thinks. He thinks about how long he's been moping about Sandrine, and it makes him feel embarrassed, self-indulgent. Theirs, he suspects, was not an epic love story like Diego and Frida's.He finds himself coming back again and again to stand in front of the same pictures, reading about the couple's life, the passion they shared for their art, for workers' rights, for each other. He feels an appetite growing within him for something bigger, better, more meaningful. He wants to live like these people. He has to make his writing better, to keep going. He has to.He is filled with an urge to go home and write something that is fresh and new and has in it the honesty of these pictures. Most of all he just wants to write. But what?

Jojo Moyes

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Natasha Tsakos

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

Pawan Mishra

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Teresa R. Funke

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Teresa R. Funke

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

Teresa R. Funke

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

Teresa R. Funke

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

Teresa R. Funke

If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over it, or under it, or through it. We humans are not meant to be contained, and neither are our thoughts.

Teresa R. Funke

Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.

John Berger

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

Teresa R. Funke

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

Teresa R. Funke

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

Teresa R. Funke

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

Yarro Rai

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

Erwin Panofsky

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Many works would be senseless, real junk, but for the fact that, being art, they are exhibited because they have a message of almost religious importance, interpreting man and his world - yes, perhaps even as junk.

H. R. Rookmaaker

Nobody is better than me.

Jason Innocent

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

Jason Innocent

Even creating shit is hard to do. First, you need money to buy food. Then you have to chew it, eat it, and swallow. A complex process called digestion follows. Finally, you have to strain and excrete your foul smelling wonder into the world. Try doing that with a paint brush!

Jonathan Heatt

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

Jonathan Heatt

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

Howard Morphy

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...

Shonali Dey

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Janet Fitch

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Ernest L. Boyer

Choose only one master — Nature.

Rembrandt

There's a mysterious alter ego in everyone. Some call it hallucination, some call it art.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

The consensus seems to be this: we should be deeply Christian artists. But that doesn't mean we should be something called Christian artists or that whatever we produce should be called Christian art. We should simply focus on our craft, on making the best art we can. We should understand that people will and should resonate with our work not because it is Christian but because it is good. Above all, Christians should make good art, true art; art unafraid of exploring mystery, portraying evil, and looking for truth wherever it appears.

Brett McCracken

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

Madeleine L'Engle

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

Raymond Radiguet

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frédéric Chopin

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity—proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive—a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Thomas Mann

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

Henry Miller

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. And from this results that modern desire for rhythm in painting, for mathematical, abstract construction, for repeated notes of colour, for setting colour in motion.

Wassily Kandinsky

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