Quotes about Art

We are all water from different rivers, that's why it's so easy to meet.

Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

I still see flaws in my work, everywhere I look. It's exhausting and mortifying and almost unbearable.

It seems to me I write what I see, paint what I am.

The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

An artist is a collector. He collects ideas, experiences, memories, and feelings.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

True peace, dependent on nothing external, and hence wholly steadfast comes from an inner balance between desire and potential.

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

practice makes better

Music is an outburst of the soul.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

Even the most insignificant details acquire, under Giotto's brush, a poignant human interest.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

... food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it very exciting.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.

Art is a saturated solution of all the involved elements in terms of each other

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Concentrate on a single feature as, build all toward one eye make all lines lead toward that eye.

The reaction that art produces in you has more to do with you than it does with art.

as if it were a point of honor which, indeed, a point of art often is.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

For my work is my art. It’s a timeless painting of visions of ecstasy depicting women’s desire to feel sensual.

For my work is art. It’s a timeless painting of visions of ecstasy depicting women’s inherent desire to feel sensual.

Shallow are the heartsthat bloom beside empty dreams.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Art is the same as nature

Choose not to waste your talent or skills.Remember, whatever you don’t use you lose.Whatever gift you have in you.Choose to share it with the world.

Evil can be transmuted into tragedy, loss into gain, temporality into deathlessness, by creating beauty.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

It's not art if no one appreciates it

In art one idea is as good as another.

Art shouldn't be necessarily done for an audience. Sometimes creating for yourself can be equally rewarding.