Art Quotes - Page 6

• A picture is a poem without words

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• Art is the objectification of feeling.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Feelings, Literature

  "Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4, 1967.

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• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye, Soul, Train

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

  Seth Godin

  Change, Courage, Creative

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.77, Penguin

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• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Creativity, Garden

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• Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

  Bruce Lee

  Creativity, Men, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

  Hans Arp

  Mother, Children, Men

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Creativity, Emotion, Painter

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• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Drawing, Creative

  Wilhelm Boeck, Jaime Sabartés, Pablo Picasso (1961). “Picasso”, New York : H.N. Abrams

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• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Long, Perfect

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• Art is the proper task of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Fools Day, Tasks

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  Odilon Redon

  Lying, Reality, Bases

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• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.

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• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  Salvador Dali

  Morning, Creativity, Pleasure

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• The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Reality, Government, Civilization

  "Flowering Judas". "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter, The Modern Library, 1940.

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• The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Creativity, Hands

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Creativity, Creative

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• An artist should have more than two eyes.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Should Have, Two

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• The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Healing, Teens, Bigs

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Creativity, New Beginnings

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• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Sadness, Wings, Soul

  Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Attitude

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

  Don Marquis

  Witty, Procrastination, Greatness

  archy and mehitabel (1927) "certain maxims of archy"

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• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

  Pablo Picasso

  Paint, Cubism, Famous Artist

  Pablo Picasso (2001). “Picasso érotique”, Prestel Pub

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