Art Quotes - Page 50

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Jack Kerouac

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Federico Fellini

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

Kiera Cass

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Andy Warhol

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Stephen King

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.

Kevin Smith

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....

Laurie Halse Anderson

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Willa Cather

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E.M. Forster

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Federico Fellini

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

D.W. Winnicott

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Anneli Rufus

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Donna Tartt

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

C.G. Jung

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat— some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.

Fernando Pessoa

If your heart is broken, make art with the pi

Shane L. Koyczan

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Pablo Picasso

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Karl Lagerfeld

i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut

Rupi Kaur

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Orson Welles

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Seth Godin

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.

Brenda Ueland

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Kate Chopin

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

André Breton

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Banksy

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

Ansel Adams

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Ayn Rand

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Claude Monet

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Chuck Palahniuk

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Andy Warhol

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Raymond Chandler

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.Art consists of the persistence of memory.

Stephen King

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Twyla Tharp

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Andy Warhol

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Rebecca Solnit

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

Meg Cabot

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Marie Antoinette

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

Nan Goldin

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Stephen King

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Banksy

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Pablo Casals

I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

David Lynch

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Oscar Wilde

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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