Art Quotes

An artwork could always be restored and sold with no depreciated value―the cracks and tears provide more character, But when it comes to human emotions, how far could you stretch your heart to let go of the pain?

~ Geraldine Solon

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

~ Orson Welles

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

~ Nina Hrusa

The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.

~ Christian Michael

The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.

~ Christian Michael

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

~ Ymatruz

So you can't make a living as a novelist—why not try farming or teaching? Or even begging—what difficulties would that present? Were you born into the world to make a living? Or have you another aim, that of becoming a novelist or something akin? If you want to become a novelist but are worried about how you will eat, then let me share my bowl of rice with you (thoughI am not as well off as I once was). If, in return, you become a great novelist,it will be my greatest joy. . . . I do not presume to urge you to become a novelist. I say only this—be firm of purpose and don't worry about trivialities.And remember the saying: the final tax you pay to achieve your goal is your life.

~ Masaoka Shiki

I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, and see a better world all different and new.I want to live where there are no shadows, of all those stupid things we both know that we used to do.I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, I want to see the world exactly like you do.I want to live where the past doesn’t matter, Whatever it takes I will never give up on you.

~ Art Alexakis

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

~ Thomas Rogal Ii

How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in years, you realize how little you grasped at the start, even when you thought you knew. We move through life mostly not seeing what is around us, not knowing who is around us, not understanding the forces at play, not understanding ourselves. Unless we stay with it, and maybe this is a movie about staying with it.

~ Rebecca Solnit

A poet is someone whose words can grasp & pull the thread of a person's soul & make them unravel with delight.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement.

~ Teresa R. Funke

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

~ Muhammad Zaki

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

~ Criss Jami

Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

~ Julian Barnes

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.

~ Thomas Merton

Work on. Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.

~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

~ Jack Schmitt

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

~ E.m. Forster

For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves at a brazier: mountain altars where offerings glow between wintry pillars; centaurs with torches cantering beside a frozen sea – scattered, unco-ordinated shapes from a fabulous past, infinitely removed from life; and yet bringing with them memories of things real and imagined. These classical projections, and something in the physical attitudes of the men themselves as they turned from the fire, suddenly suggested Poussin’s scene in which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outwards like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure: stepping slowly, methodically, sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seeminly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle: unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance.

~ Anthony Powell

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

~ A.s. Byatt

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

~ Norbert Wiener

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

~ Criss Jami

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

~ Albert Einstein

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

~ Mark Lawrence

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer art is everything else.

~ Donald Ervin Knuth

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

~ Wassily Kandinsky

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

~ Albert Einstein

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb