Art Quotes - Page 11

• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Soul, Mind, Lost

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

  Rene Magritte

  Motivational, Serendipity, World

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• Wherever art appears, life disappears.

  Robert Motherwell

  Umpires, Architecture, Disappear

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• In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

  Richard Schmid

  Self, Experience, Portraits

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• Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Believe, Inspiration, Draws

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• Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Design

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• Art is the child of Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Children, Art Is

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Hipster, Needs, Guilty Conscience

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Triumph, Chaos, Artistic Process

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Paint, Artist, Famous Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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• I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Reality, Painting, My Own

  Elena Poniatowska, Frida Kahlo, Carla Stellweg (1992). “Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced”, Vintage

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Freedom, Teaching, Intellectual

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

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• What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

  Edith Sitwell

  Artist, Knows

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Freedom, Design

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Creativity, Cake, Chocolate

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• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Opportunity, Acting

  "The Best of the Music Makers". Book by George Thomas Simon, 1979.

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• Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Love, Process, Seeing Yourself

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

  Gerhard Richter

  Creating, Understanding, Trying

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

  George Tooker

  Life, Inspire, Painting

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• In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Hands, Essence

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.185, OUP Oxford

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• What I dream of is an art of balance.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Balance, Balanced Life

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• Making art is a journey.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Wise, Journey, Art Is

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• Art, like Nature, has her monsters

  Oscar Wilde

  Monsters

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

  Edward Hopper

  Innovation, Modern, Periods

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