Art Quotes

The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride white stallions, galloping across the countryside, charging across emerald meadows and through a forest the color of flames. Isabelle's hair streamed behind her like a river of ink, and Simon had even managed not to fall off his horse--never a foregone conclusion.

~ Cassandra Clare

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

~ Oscar Wilde

In art, questions are always more interesting than answers.

~ Marcus Berkmann

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

~ Derek Thompson

Art is a game. Poetry as well. At the end of the day, you either know how to play it or not.

~ Leila Samarrai

As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflections gleamed on the crystalline waters of Lake Lyn. The horses whinnied, the birds chirped, and Simon and Isabelle crunched their peanut brittle and popcorn. This, Simon thought, was the sound of happiness.

~ Cassandra Clare

I am art. I am authentic. I am love. I am me.

~ Malebo Sephodi

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.

~ Maxim Gorky

What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps our most essential nature.

~ Atalina Wright

In every situation, at the beginning or end of the workday, you have a choice. You can look back or you can look forward. My advice: look forward. Always think about the next day. Don't go into the studio thinking, 'Hmmm, let's see what I was doing yesterday?' It takes more energy to twist yourself around and look back that it does to face forward.

~ Twyla Tharp

Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

~ Andrew Loomis

The very first thing I remember in my early childhood is a flame, a blue flame jumping off a gas stove somebody lit... I remember being shocked by the whoosh of the blue flame jumping off the burner, the suddenness of it... I saw that flame and felt that hotness of it close to my face. I felt fear, real fear, for the first time in my life. But I remember it also like some kind of adventure, some kind of weird joy, too. I guess that experience took me someplace in my head I hadn't been before... The fear I had was almost like an invitation, a challenge to go forward into something I knew nothing about. That's where I think my personal philosophy of life and my commitment to everything I believe in started... In my mind I have always believed and thought since then that my motion had to be forward, away from the heat of that flame.

~ Miles Davis

What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.

~ Natasha Pulley

Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.''No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't heavy. 'It's clever, it looks like busy Mozart.''What?''I . . .' Thaniel sighed. 'I see sound. Mozart looks like this. You know. Fast strings.''See? In front of you?''Yes. I'm not mad.''I didn't think so. All sounds?''Yes.

~ Natasha Pulley

Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.

~ Bonnie Kelso

Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of a falling wall was like a volcanic eruption fading into a mountain of roses. The wall sawyer felt a loving animosity toward walls. “You must pay attention to your obsessions, where life and love intersect,” she told the little queen. 

~ Meia Geddes

You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you’re not hearing them.

~ Basma Salem

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

~ David Bayles

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

~ Susan Cain

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

~ László Krasznahorkai

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior.

~ William Faulkner

As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old courage, standing on one's own feet, and forever seeking enlightenment; courage to develop your way, but learning from the other fellow; experimentation with your own ideas, observing for yourself, a rigid discipline of doing over that which you can improve.

~ Andrew Loomis

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

~ Nick Meglin

I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.

~ Andrew Loomis

Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in real, bright fire and she had tipped back her head and laughed, the tumble of her black hair becoming a crackling waterfall of light, the heels of her shoes striking sparks like glittering leaping dust all over the floor, her skirt trailing flame as if he were following a phoenix tail. Magnus had spun and swung with her, and she'd thought he was marvelous for a single moment of bright illusion. But, like love, fire didn't last.

~ Cassandra Clare

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

~ Eudora Welty

Despite dreaming about making a living through his art, the real potential of becoming An Artist Nobody Likes was far, far scarier than remaining An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of. At least he was comfortable with and used to being An Artist Nobody’s Heard Of.

~ Mark Manson

Saturday-morning cartoon sure aren't what they used to be. The animation is lazy. Too clean. He misses being able to detect pencil lines and paint strokes in his favorite cartoon characters, his mind never quite separating the creatures from the art that brought them to life.

~ Kara Lee Corthron

He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so exquisite and fluid it coaxed our souls out of our bodies to dance with him, weightless in the perfume of divinity.

~ Katie Waitman

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

~ William Faulkner

Every time she meets him, she feels like he was a new paper ready to be drawn. And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and blue and black, all mixed up together forming a confusing storm

~ Basma Salem

And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and blue and black, all mixed up together forming a confusing storm, the second time she met him was like red and orange and everything that burned, the third time it was raining and it felt like the storm would never end. And she felt right now that the storm is ending. When he took his glasses off and she saw the sadness in his eyes, and she could clearly see how the storm is going to leave soon, but yet leaving behind it broken pieces and shattered glasses.

~ Basma Salem

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

~ Basma Salem

The assertion that only sex is power and the arrogation of creativity to the masculine sex and the rendering of all creativity as sexual—this is patriarchal aesthetics. Patriarchal passion sees violent sex as the essential creative act, even aesthetically, through a sort of metaphysical transubstantiation. This is their romantic belief that sex with the Master can produce the artistic spirit in the student. Male creativity is thus born in another, her work is given depth through the violent transgression of her boundaries.

~ Somer Brodribb

I am an art work in constant progress; I am my own canvas, my own colors, my own brushes and my own inspiration.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

~ L.m. Montgomery

William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-

~ Garth Risk Hallberg

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

~ Laurens Van Der Post