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Artistic Quotes - General
If you are truly talented, art will find
you; and if
art is in
your heart,
you will express it.
~ Debbie Jensen
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every
experience is a form of exploration. ~
Ansel Adams
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful
thoughts or experiencing tender emotions (though
those are its raw materials), but of intelligence,
skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and
industry; especially discipline.
~ Evelyn Waugh
What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks
backward, the other forward; one is of today, the
other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our
brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of
the past and of the day. ~ Grandma Moses
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and
paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~
Scott Adams
Art is the only way to run away without leaving
home. ~ Twyla Tharp
Painting is just another way
of keeping a diary. ~
Pablo Picasso
Without art, the crudeness of
reality would make the world unbearable. ~ George
Bernard Shaw
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and
in a state where he can receive information and
inspiration. You always have to be ready for that
little artistic Epiphany. ~
Nick Cave
An artist is not paid for his
labor but for his vision. ~ James McNeill
Whistler
I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition
of the creative artist trying to reconcile the
insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process
with living a sane and socially acceptable
existence. ~ Kevin Kline
There are two kinds of success. One is musical or
artistic and the other is commercial. ~
John McLaughlin
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground,
a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of
creativity wrestling. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds
you that you have one. ~ Stella Adler
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~ Claude Monet
To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry
Moore
Graphic design will save the world right after rock
and roll does. ~ David Carson
I found I could say things with color and shapes
that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no
words for. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
There's an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let
him loose to spread joy everywhere. ~ Bertrand
Russell
The painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson
Pollock
There is nothing new in art except talent. ~
Anton Chekov
The only road to authenticity lies through what has
already been done. There is no deep art without deep
historical awareness. ~ Robert Hughes
It is not the language of painters but the
language of nature which one should listen to, the
feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is
more important than the feeling for pictures. ~
Vincent Van Gogh
Art is man's nature. Nature is
God's art. ~
James Bailey
The role of art is not to give us pleasure, but
rather to present us with something that we did not
know before. ~ Otto Baensch
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
~ Charles H. Perkhurst
"If I were called
upon to define briefly the word 'Art,' I should call
it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in
nature, seen through the veil of the soul."
~ Paul Cezanne
"I shut my eyes in
order to see." ~ Paul Gauguin
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