Art Quotes

The sky blue strengthens slowly, the dawn light rosy and pale the summer song of our romance begin to unveil...with every heart beat and the waves' breath...the time stood in harmony still. Your morning kiss my hands could feel...by your lips soft, so warm, so very gentle, nice and full of life...

~ Oksana Rus

Echo of the waves appears in the sky, their lights reflected in your eyes. I'm back in our world and happy again. The sound of your voice, compassionate embrace... The power in your touch, serenity of stride... The beating of your heart calms down my presence, gracing with eternal peace of mind... Bathing in the sunshine of your arms I'm deeply aware of the melodic stream that has no language...gliding beneath the quiet Heaven of your eyes...

~ Oksana Rus

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

~ Clive Barker

Soft on the neck of either dove love's hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love's twilight wanes...

~ Oksana Rus

We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls

~ Frank Wynne

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

~ Barry Hughart

The ability to find pixilation amid the pixelation is at the essence of the gift of celestial Grace.

~ David B. Lentz

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

~ Ben Shahn

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is authenticity

~ Frank Wynne

Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

~ A.d. Posey

From personal adversity comes great art

~ Tan Redding

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

~ Chloe Thurlow

Good talent needs a showcase to prove its worth.There are many cases across the world across arts where good and talented artists have disappeared bcz no one saw them.

~ Chetan Katigar

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

~ Pablo Picasso

Everything is fair in love and art.

~ Christos Tsiolkas

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much.

~ Tom Rachman

The relentless persistence of Light eventually exhausts darkness.

~ David B. Lentz

Art is about emotion, if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

~ Virginia Woolf

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else.

~ Charles Bukowski

unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder,don’t do it.unless the sun inside you isburning your gut,don’t do it.when it is truly time,and if you have been chosen,it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you.there is no other way.and there never was.

~ Charles Bukowski

In advanced societies it is not the race politicians or the rights leaders who create the new ideas and the new images of life and man. That role belongs to the artists and intellectuals of each generation. Let the race politicians, if they will, create political, economic or organizational forms of leadership; but it is the artists and the creative minds who will, and must, furnish the all important content. And in this role, they must not be subordinated to the whims and desires of politicians, race leaders and civil rights entrepreneurs whether they come from the Left, Right, or Center, or whether they are peaceful, reform, violent, non-violent or laissez-faire. Which means to say, in advanced societies the cultural front is a special one that requires special techniques not perceived, understood, or appreciated by political philistines.

~ Harold Cruse

Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would get the happiness inside him. Many people thought he was mad and stupid for doing so because the paint was toxic, never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn't possibly have any direct correlation to one's happiness, but i never saw that.If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas could possibly work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow, then you are going to do it. It's really no different than falling in love or taking drugs. There is a greater risk of getting your heart broken or overdosing, but people still do ir everyday because there was always that chance it could make things better.Everyone has their own yellow paint.

~ Alexandra Timmer

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

~ Twyla Tharp

The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

~ J.d. Salinger

Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.

~ Asa Don Brown

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The extent of creativity to which I admire in an individual is his ability to be richly creative while still, in a way, telling the truth. It is the fool who creates only his own lies, and the bore who simply repeats what he is told.

~ Criss Jami

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

~ Jonathan Heatt

...those works that don't touch the heart, it seems to me, miss the true aim of Art.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.

~ Ray Mancini

Inspiration fans the flame of creation.

~ Ka Chinery

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

~ Hermann Hesse

All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.

~ Edmund De Waal

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

~ Amit Kalantri

It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him.

~ Bonnie Macbird

Art expresses those unexplainable thoughts of our soul.

~ Debasish Mridha

Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers