Art Quotes

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

~ James Lee Burke

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

~ Murasaki Shikibu

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

~ Bryant Mcgill

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create a new tangle, or transform it using an old trusty pattern. A Zentangle tile is meant to be a surprise that unfolds before the creator's eyes, one stroke at a time.

~ Beckah Krahula

Light is impressionism.

~ Gae Aulenti

The taste of Scotch, though Guy didn’t much care for it, was pleasant because it reminded him of Anne. She drank Scotch, when she drank. It was like her, golden, full of light, made with careful art.

~ Patricia Highsmith

It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

~ Leonard Nimoy

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great power. The vessels shattered, sending countless shards, bits of the glowing matter, into the vastness of the universe.These scattered bits of divine light must be collected. When the task is done the forces of the dark will be vanquished and the world will be healed.

~ Leonard Nimoy

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the fingers splayed to form the shape of the letter Shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, a name for the Almighty. The chant, in Hebrew, is loud and ecstatic: May the Lord bless and keep you.The Shekhina is summoned; the feminine essence of God. She enters the sanctuary to bless the congregation. The very sight of her, the awesome light emanating from the Shekhina, is dangerous to behold.

~ Leonard Nimoy

Light - both physical and moral - was a central concern to the men and women living in the medieval age. They attempted to explore its properties in the colors of a stained glass canopy, in the tenor of a brisk saltarello, in the lilt of a Jongleur's ballad, in the sweet savor of a banqueting table, in the rhapsody of a well planned garden, indeed, in every arena and discipline of life.

~ Douglas Wilson Douglas Jones

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

~ Donald Barthelme

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

~ Tara Dobbs

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

~ Destiny Allison

On the canvas of life,Every sweep of the brush matters,Counts for something…

~ Scott Hastie

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.”I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.

~ Lydia Millet

I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to truth and coincidence is a lie to distract us? The reason I was in this place no longer mattered. The harsh reality stared me in the face and demanded an immediate decision. Walk away and blame it on my age. Or stay and try to help a woman who had slowly become my friend over the last few weeks.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

~ Piper Payne

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

~ Alain De Botton

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

~ Jean Genet

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

~ Ndiritu Wahome

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

~ Unarine Ramaru

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach beyond our boundaries, we would be forever stagnant. The folly is in closing one’s eyes and not recognizing it.

~ Carol Oates

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

~ Stella Mowen

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....

~ T.a. Richards

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.

~ Azar Nafisi

He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.

~ C.s. Richardson

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

~ Cathryn Louis

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

~ Marcel Proust

Remember when we didn't know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to be completed, and when it was a matter of lines that were not suppose to be connected. When feelings crashed on a white heart unintentionally and when our soul was not held in captive. Remember?

~ Mona Adnan

Transcendental artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum... the way of the shaman. The presence of glyphs speaks a universal language of the soulthat transcends words. If one considers the notion of parallel realities and the plurality of dimensional realms, the premise of art as consciousness-provoking vessel can be viewed as an organic and natural occurrence.

~ Elle Nicolai

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

~ Elle Nicolai

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

~ Lord Dunsany

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the scenic, the expression of what are sometimes called abstract imaginings. The ‘simply natural’ is interesting no longer.

~ Thomas Hardy

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

~ Hiroko Sakai

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect, the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb