Art Quotes

I think, Charlie, you have talent. I do. But I don't think you'll get far until you examine yourself and study.Until you let yourself be your subject. That's the exquisiteness of youth: you are allowed the luxury of vanity, of self-examination. Take it! Don't be ashamed of yourself.

~ Kathleen Glasgow

As I said before, I took to miniature painting without a completely whole heart, on the advice of my elders and betters. Generally speaking, I do not think that one should ever take another person's advice in the things of life that really matter, but follow the dictates of the still small something in one's innermost self. But 'they' advised, and I bowed to the advice; and in this particular instance it was a good thing I did, because the advice turned out to be so resoundingly wrong that it turned me into another direction altogether. If I had gone on working in oils I might very well have been a dedicated but unsuccessful painter to this day.

~ Rosemary Sutcliff

And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.

~ Neil Gaiman

In the flailing light they all looked sharp-edged and ethereal and divided by great distances

~ Virginia Woolf

I don't remember her. But she feels special. There's this hole in my heart every time I draw her; you know, a sick sort of feeling. Like she's someone I lost.

~ C. Robert Cargill

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

~ Douglas Adams

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

~ Gordon S. Haight

[W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

~ Louise Seaman Bechtel

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

~ Kamand Kojouri

Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not art for art's sake but art that breathes true meaning.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

I painted for the eyes, and wrote prose for the ears… Between those senses lay the mind and soul… I enjoyed connecting with people’s deepest thoughts, their hopes and dreams… My pen and brush were tools to achieve my artistic desired effects.

~ J.r. Ortiz

Management: An art of handling conflicting Egos to meet a common objective, be it political, organisational or societal in nature.

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

If you call that music real noise

~ Joseph Mcelroy

Creativity abides no absolutes.

~ Shannon Taylor Hodnett

Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary.

~ Jessie Burton

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

~ Nuno Roque

There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.

~ M.c. Escher

You know what? I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm gonna make art, arty art art!

~ Andy Biersack

The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.

~ Danny Gregory

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

~ Maria Elena

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

~ André Bazin

Paris, however―because of her purely fortuitous beauty, because of the old things which have become a part of her, because of her entanglement of buildings and tenements―Paris yields herself in discovery as an attic beloved in our childhood gave up its secrets.

~ Jean Cocteau

A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn’t even known was dark.

~ Lilah Pace

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

~ Mark Rothko

There are different ways of seeing things. That's art. There is no one interpretation.

~ Sharon Leach

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.

~ Mette Hjort

Being unemployed, Kurt set in motion a routine that he would follow for the rest of his life. He would rise at around noon and eat a brunch of sorts. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was his favorite food. After eating, he would spend the rest of the day doing one of three things: watching television, which he did unceasingly; practicing his guitar, which he did for hours a day, usually while watching TV; or creating some kind of art project, be it a painting, collage, or three-dimensional installation. This last activity was never formal— he rarely identified himself as an artist—yet he spent hours in this manner.

~ Charles R. Cross

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

~ William L. Hubbard

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

~ Nuno Roque

You'll live through my words and my pictures, and I'll live somewhere the skies are blue.

~ Maria Elena

...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage.

~ Mette Hjort

No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not human geniusthat makes us human, but an old love,an old intelligence of the heartwe gather to us from the world,from the creatures, from the angelsof inspiration, from the dead--an intelligence merely nonexistentto those who do not have it, but --to those who have it more dear than life.

~ Wendell Berry

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There are no bad drawings.Drawings are experiences.The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get.In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned.So let it go.Release your ego's desire for perfection.Take risks.Stretch.Grow.Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

~ Danny Gregory

that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.

~ Dean Koontz

It is fairy dust and wanderlust that guide our hands to create what our hearts desire.

~ Gayle Wray

I barely registered moving into the long gallery, one hand absentmindedly wrapping around my throat as I looked up at the paintings.So many, so different, yet all arranged to flow together seamlessly... Such different views and snippets and angles of the world. Pastorals, portraits, still lifes . . . each a story and an experience, each a voice shouting or whispering or singing about what that moment, that feeling, had been like, each a cry into the void of time that they had been here, had existed. Some had been painted through eyes like mine, artists who saw in colors and shapes I understood. Some showcased colors I had not considered; these had a bend to the world that told me a different set of eyes had painted them. A portal into the mind of a creature so unlike me, and yet . . . and yet I looked at its work and understood, and felt, and cared.

~ Sarah J. Maas

There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

~ Tom Pappalardo