Art Quotes - Page 9

• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Poetry, Greek, Quiet

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

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Creative Collaboration, Doe

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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• I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

  Giorgio Morandi

  Privacy, Kind, Mood

  Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Unique, Results

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

  Georges Braque

  Science, Technology, Artist

  Le Jour et la Nuit: Cahiers 1917 - 52 (1952)

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• A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Confession, Art Is, Works Of Art

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Serenity

  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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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiring, Architecture, Stealing

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

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• All art is at once surface and symbol.

  Oscar Wilde

  Peril, Beneath The Surface, Symbols

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Expression, Musical

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.61, Parkstone International

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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Simplicity, Unnecessary, Elimination

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• I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

  Henri Matisse

  Want, Condensation, Sensations

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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• The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

  Francisco Goya

  Painting, Salvation, Found

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• Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Change, Beautiful, Eye

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.285, OUP Oxford

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• To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Courage, Business

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• Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

  Jean Paul

  Wine, Bread, Art Is

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.

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• Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

  Gerhard Richter

  Religious, Believe, Reality

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

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• Nature is the art of God.

  Dante Alighieri

  Nature, Travel, Waterfalls

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• The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

  David Cronenberg

  Desire

  Interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Radio program Q, June 7, 2012.

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• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Feelings, Literature, Spirituality

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Writing, Restless Mind

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

  Diego Rivera

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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