Art Quotes

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don’t see him as a living individual painter any more.

~ John Fowles

Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.

~ Kevin Focke

I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco!

~ Joy Baer

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

~ Umberto Boccioni

Creativity is a work of the hand of God, and is therefore an art of Love. If we want to create something in our lives, we have to allow God’s hand to weave through our hearts, so we can carry out the work of the soul – our Divine purpose in life.

~ Frederick Espiritu

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits).

~ Richie Norton

...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

~ Allan Kaprow

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

~ Andrew Loomis

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

~ Sotero M Lopez Ii

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

~ Viola Di Grado

It is this perfect accuracy, this lack of play, of variety, that makes the machine-made article so lifeless. Wherever there is life there is variety, and the substitution of the machine-made for the hand-made article has impoverished the world to a greater extent than we are probably yet aware of. Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier period.

~ Harold Speed

It fascinates me that when we lose one of our five senses, the remaining four strengthen and rally to make sense of the world we live in. Even by closing our eyes for a moment, we find ourselves paying closer attention to the sounds around us. Perhaps this is why music can resonate so deeply within us; somehow our isolated senses allow our brains the space and perspective to connect these really beautiful dots of our own hearts and souls. I wonder if the act of giving our other senses a break ca

~ Ryan O'neal

What you felt, the beast that swallowed you all and spat you back out, that is the great big bloody point of all this. If you learn nothing else from this bizarre and awkward experience--this gathering of strangers to blow into horns and pluck catgut--remember that you have the power to feel that. The power to create that. With your hands. Your breath. You are gods, children, and you can make war.

~ Kate Racculia

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

~ Marty Rubin

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

~ Seth Godin

Yes, she is.” His eyes remained on Olivia, but she wasn’t aware he was watching her. “With art, I believe anything created with profound heart is captured compulsively beautifully.

~ Maria La Serra

ART happens every time we live in the spirit of the moment's greatness.

~ H.l. Balcomb

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

~ Jimi Hendrix

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

~ Thomas Merton

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own.

~ Marie Luise Knott

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

~ Austin Kleon

One day a young daughter was watching her mother make a roast for the family. She watched as her mother cut off the two ends of the roast and put it in the pan, along with the potatoes and vegetables. Perplexed by the procedure, the child asked why her mother cut off both ends. The mother smiled and answered, “Because that’s the way grandma always did it.” The next time the child saw her grand- ma, she asked her why she did this. Her grandma answered that she had cut off the ends of her roasts and baked them in a small pan because the stove she had was so small.Like the girl’s mother, many of us do things a certain way be- cause that’s the way they have always been done, and we never nd out if those things are still relevant today. So let’s take a moment and think outside the box of what has been done in the past, asking God to reveal Himself to us afresh.

~ Theresa Dedmon

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

~ Kermit The Frog

I knew a girl and she felt like art.Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull,Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes,Sometimes only black and white,But she was always a piece of exquisite art.

~ Melanie Sargsian

My ears hear colors and my eyes see sounds.

~ Suzy Kassem

Trauma and pain are the foundations of art. I believe that. When tragedy strikes, however, a muralist or a watercolorist has the opportunity to be a human being in the moment and an artist afterward. Faced with the death of a loved one, a sculptor or portraitist can first grieve, suffer, and heal--then create. Most artists go through life this way. They can react normally to the trials and tribulations of the human experience. They can pass through the world with compassion and comradeship. They can make their art later. Outside, elsewhere, beyond. But photography is immediate. It does not offer the luxury of time. Faced with blood, death, or transformation, a photographer has no choice but to reach for the camera. An artist first, a human being afterward. Photography is a neutral record of all events, a chronicle of things both sublime and terrible. By necessity, this work is made without emotion, without connection, without love.

~ Abby Geni

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.

~ A.e. Samaan

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

~ W.h. Auden

Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I've been.

~ Destin Sparks

The hardest part is setting the camera on the tripod, or making the decision to bring the camera out of the car, or just raising the camera to your face, believing, by those actions, that whatever you find before you, whatever you find there, is going to be good.

~ Sally Mann

Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren't just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.

~ Ashton Kutcher

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

~ Marty Rubin

Art never comes from happiness

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I see a sacred beautiful art.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the revolution actually comes about.

~ A.e. Samaan