Art Quotations Quotes

Symphonies begin with one note, fires with one flame, gardens with one flower, and masterpieces with one stroke.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An artist adopts a radically different view regarding the importance of time than a businessperson does. Instead of perceiving time as a merchantable facet doled out incrementally according to marketplace demands, an artist portrays time as an agent of destruction. The irrevocability of time frames the human condition. Time might the medium of all human experience, but its passage obscures and eventually obliterates all human endeavors. Time unchecked leads to a blank slate of nothingness. Time’s destructive march towards meaningless is arrested through memory and art depicting humankind’s struggles and accomplishments.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Generations cometh and generations passeth, but the earth abideth forever. While successive generations live and die, and all things change, man can never rest until death claims us. I choose to use my time alone to contemplate human existence, probe the human condition, and trace what it means to be one man in our modern world. There can be no profit from my labor, no lasting yield realized from this laborious and painful sojourn. We will leave everything behind. The earth shall dissolve all of our acquisitions and obliterate all traces of our petty affections. Passage of time shall alter, not annihilate the products of any artistic labors. The substance of our artistic enterprises shall continue forward in a renewed and redefined state.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

God is the world's oldest poet, love is the world's oldest poem.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Dance to the beat of your own drum, whether the world likes your rhythmic movements or not.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo