Art Quotes - Page 51

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Stephanie Perkins

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...

Christina Westover

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

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

Charles Bukowski

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Art is what you can get away with.

Imagination governs the world.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G.K. Chesterton

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Nicholas Sparks

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

Laurie Halse Anderson

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Lady Gaga

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Emily Dickinson

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Hannah Harrington

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

Banksy

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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.

Francis of Assisi

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Mikhail Bakunin

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. ... No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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