Re: [14vidya_64kala] Art Quotes

[SANJAY PETHE]

Namaskar,

This is really wonderfull.

Can you suggest us, some good Links related to 'Indian Art'?

Even, I would like to share one Defination >

Do You Know, what is ACTOR ?

 

ACTOR defines as >

A  >  Acting

C  >  Concentration

T  >  Timing

O  >  Originality

R  >  Rhythm

 

So, How many "actors " you know ?

 

Dhanywaad!

 

gee_dublew <gee_d...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hullo all,
I was surfing the net for something related to color and art, for one
of my assignments.
Came across some interesting quotes related to art...am sure you will
enjoy them too...:)
GW

>>>>.Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish - Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance. Aristotle

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches
into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature
herself is animated. - Auguste Rodin

Art is art. Everything else is everything else. - Ad Reinhardt

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. - Alberti

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You
know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't
even define. – Ani Difranco (Out of habit), In Music

Art is what you can get away with. - Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

PAINTING, n: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and
exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's
Dictionary", 1906

If the work begins to look labored or inferior, drastic action is
taken. I destroy the offending painting with wild swathes of paint.
Most satisfying! What comes out of this spent energy is often an
excellent painting. - Ann Zielinski

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all
the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not
paint to live. - Albert Pinkham Ryder

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. -
André Malraux

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody
click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good
photographs. - Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and
the viewer. - Ansel Adams

I like to think that a good painting (or a good poem or a good book,
or any good thing) can be measured by how much, after experiencing it
for a while, you start to forget that it was made about someone other
than you. - Andrew Hershey

In feature films the directory is God; in documentary films God is
the director. - Alfred Hitchcock

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the
unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp (1909 - 1979)

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the
reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. - Amy Lowell
(1874 - 1925)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the
artist does the better. - Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Let each man exercise the art he knows. - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388
BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a
reality of the same intensity." - Alberto Giacometti

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real
and are taken from you own experience.  - Berthe Morisot


Art is the thrilling spark that beats death - thats all - Brett
Whiteley

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels,
most would choose none. - Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy
idling, dawdling and puttering. - Brenda Ueland

I'm not really foreign, you know. I just do it to appear more
sophisticated! I mean, nobody'd buy Evian water if it was called
Blackburn water, would they? Nobody'd wear Kicker boots if they were
made in Scunthorpe! Abba? Abba, Swedish? I knew then when they were a
Lancashire clog-dancing trio! Arthur, Betty, Boris and Angela!
Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn--a former pipe-fitter welder from
Harrogate! - Balowski, In TV Shows/The Young Ones

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way;
an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. -
Charles Bukowski, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man"

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton
Cooley

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are
in history books. - Charlie Chaplin

I build a painting by putting little marks together--some look like
hot dogs, some like doughnuts. - Chuck Close

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,
that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have
rendered something in its true character. - Camille Pissarro

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for
the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of
things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything
essentially real by imitating its exterior surface." - Constantin
Brancusi

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy
that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those
closest to God have seen them. - Constantin Brancusi

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does
something other than sit on its ass in a museum. - Claes Oldenburg

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or
write wonderful poetry.I like making deals, preferably big deals.
That's how I get my kicks. - Donald Trump

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. -
Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it
you can. - Danny Kaye

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.
Art is everything else we do. - Donald Knuth, In Technology/Computers

Arthur Dent hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. Then,
realizing the contradiction, he merely hoped there wasn't an
afterlife. - Douglas Adams, In Literature

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the
difference in art. - Dante Gabriel Rosetti


It's only words... unless they're true. - David Mamet

When you risk becoming an artist, you risk taking your talent
seriously. - Dee Ito

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more
intensely for the reading of it. - Elizabeth Drew

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't
believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. -
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of
immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. - Edith
Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you
live, if you do. - Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain
it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not
new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already
been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.- Edgar Degas

Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult
when you do. - Edgar Dega

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy.
When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring
people - Edgar Degas

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do
good things. - Edgar Degas

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. -
Edward Hopper

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were
not in us, how would we ever recognize it? - Ernst Haas

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the
streets. - Edward Ruscha

Its hard to find the light when you're born in the dark - Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work. - Emile Zola

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women
knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer
and love. - Edvard Munch

Little kids draw pictures of the ground, the sky, and space in
between. If you ask them what the in-between space is, they
say 'that's where we are.' - Ed McCullough

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call
it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through
the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what
is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' - Edgar
Allan Poe

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave
me the wish to paint. - Francis Bacon



But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not
compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the
subjects of painting can live. - Frank Stella

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen,
and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how
extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. - Frederick Franck, " The Zen of
Seeing

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's
autobiography. - Federico Fellini

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
(1940 - 1993)

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a
strangled laugh. - Georges Rouault

"...I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures,
their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough,
each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde
hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens." -
Georg Baselitz

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many
solutions as there are human beings. - George Tooker

I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models
and they don't move. - Georgia O'Keefe

There are no rules, only tools. - Glenn Vilppu

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most
people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place
where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else
idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human
nature. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Autobiography"

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.- Gilbert
Keith Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say
any other way - things I had no words for. - Georgia O'Keeffe

So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me
but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time
to look at it. I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see
what I see of flowers. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable
thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

To explain away the mystery of a great painting-- if such a feat were
possible-- would be irreparable harm. . . . If there is no mystery
then there is no 'poetry'. - Georges Braque

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that
is all there is to it. - Georges Seurat

A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be
comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of
inner tension is the source of artistic energy. - Goethe

Art is long, life short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. -
Goethe

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own
nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs
from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one,
trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade. - Henry Fuseli

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ,
so art looks different. - Henry Glassie

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance . . . and
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its
process. - Henry James

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what
I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to
teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and
said, "You mean they forget?" - Howard Ikemoto

Nature is a revelation of God; art a revelation of man. - Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end
the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. -
Henry Steele Commager

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. -
Henry S. Haskins

To be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that
the necessary may speak. - Hans Hofmann

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose
tears was a pearl. - Heinrich Heine

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody
else. - Henri Matisse

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn
talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a
person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a
complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist
begins with a vision -- a creative operation requiring an effort.
Creativity takes courage. - Henri Matisse

Precision is not reality - Henri Matisse

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree
so that it will grow better. - Henri Matisse

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above
all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods. - Henri Matisse

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid
of troubling or depressing subject matter. - Henri Matisse

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of
permanence.  - Henri Matisse

.In our time there are many artists who do something because it is
new; they see their value and their justification in this newness.
They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This
has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its
intrinsic nature. - Henri de Toulouse Lautrec


Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. - Huneker

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the
artist: Give me leave to do my utmost. - Isak Dineson, 'Babette's
Feast'

When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, "Monet"
or "Manet", I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I
said it again, louder. then she left. I guess she went to try to find
some mayonnaise for me. - Jack Handey

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been
hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

If you want to have a million dollars and be an artist, start with
two. - James Bauerle

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James
McNeill Whistler

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight
and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of
color. - James Mcneill Whistler

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that
shape music. - Joan Miro

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the
minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a
character of even greater bareness.  - Joan Miro

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace,
prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. - Joan Miro

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic
and random is confusing. In between lies art. - John A. Locke

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let
the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective
will always make it beautiful. - John Constable, "Lecture"

Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole - Jonathan Richman

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle
uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in
the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French
word for life-jacket. - Julian Barnes

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)

Every good painter paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state
and an attempt to point out the direction of the future - without
arriving there completely. - Jackson Pollock

Art is coming face to face with yourself. That's what's wrong with
Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo-- and he lost -
Jackson Pollock

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. -
Jackson Pollock

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can
discuss horticulture. - Jean Cocteau

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a
form of truth. - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963

Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up
to a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of
us who aren't artists must color things the way they are or people
might think we're stupid. - Jules Feiffer

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular
error. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by
authors contemplating their own work. - John Kenneth Galbraith

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough
suffering for anyone. - John Ciardi

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. - Joubert

The writer must be willing, above everything else, to take chances,
to risk making a fool of himself - or even to risk revealing the fact
he is a fool. - Jessamyn West

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is
pretty fairly divided between the sexes. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817),
Northanger Abbey

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Everytime I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment. - John Olsen

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

Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution. - Karl
Kraus

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was
drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no
right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. It is
my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings
heaped mountain-high. - Kathe Kollwitz

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as
much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric
times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. -
Keith Haring

If you really want to upset your parents, and you are not brave
enough to be gay, go into the arts! - Kurt Vonnegut

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve
enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts. -
Kurt Vonnegut

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the
generations of the world. - Leonardo da Vinci

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great
matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable
perception into feeling. In our age the common religious perception
of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man-we know that
the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True
science should indicate the various methods of applying this
consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into
feeling. The task of art is enormous. Through the influence of real
art, aided by science, guided by religion, that peaceful co-operation
of man is now obtained by external means-by law courts, police,
charitable institutions, factory inspection, etc.-should be obtained
by man's free and joyous activity. Art should cause violence to be
set aside. And it is only art that can accomplish this. - Leo N.
Tolstoy

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the
universe when I'm in the process of working. - Louise Nevelson

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. -
Louise Nevelson

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to
operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent...
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to
avoid. - Lucien Freud

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as
their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with
them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must
be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the
subject itself. It is through observation and perception of
atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his
painting to give out. - Lucien Freud

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and,
ironically, the more real. - Lucian Freud

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art
what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called
the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I
can't do. - Lucian Freud

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up
next to the picture ... it is of no interest whether it is an
accurate copy of the model. Whether it will convince or not, depends
entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen. The model
should only serve the very private function for the painter of
providing the starting point for his excitement. The picture is all
he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he
invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the
model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted
twice. - Lucien Freud

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures
himeself with his art - Lee Simonson

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of the pain
we all have. - Lionel Trilling

Murder is a crime. Writing about it isn't. Sex is not a crime, but
writing about it is. Why? - Larry Flynt

What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the
idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or
too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique. -
Leonard Bacon, In Art/Technique

Art is like a shipwreck .. it's everyman for himself. - Marcel Duchamp

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count,
because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of
art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker,
and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to
something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and
it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should
not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with
him. - Marcel Duchamp

Art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is for the artist, for the
collector, for anybody connected with it. Art has absolutely no
existence as varacity, as truth. People speak of it with great,
religious reverence, but I don't see why it is to be so much revered.
I'm afraid I'm an agnostic when it comes to art. I don't believe in
it with all the mystical trimmings. As a drug it's probably very
useful for many people, very sedative, but as a religion it's not
even as good as God. - Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. - Marcel
Duchamp

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. - Marcel Duchamp

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored
by those willing to take the risks. - Mark Rothko (1903-1970)

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's
your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is
thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. - Mark Rothko

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter
what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of
academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. -
Mark Rothko

Great designers innovate, good designers emulate. - Mark Stosberg

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the
others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

Talent and all that are really for the most part just baloney. Any
schoolboy with a little aptitude can perhaps draw better than I; but
what he lacks in most cases is that tenacious desire to make it
reality, that obstinate gnashing of teeth and saying, "Although I
know it can't be done, I want to do it anyway - Maurits Cornelius
Escher

Drawing is deception. - Maurits Cornelius Escher

Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do. - Michelangelo

Hear Peter Halley at the College Art Association conference, scolding
academics for the jargon-laden obscurantism of critical prose,
although his own writings on behalf of Baudrillard and the simulacrum
thickened the stew more than a little. - Marcia E. Vetrocq, Art in
America, In Art/Criticism

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member
of our society. - Man Ray, "Self Portrait"

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic
invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention,
discovery, revelation. - Max Ernst

I feel like giving up! - Max Liebermann

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by
themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mark
Twain

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. - Mark
Twain

Criticism is a queer thing. If I print, "She was stark naked" and
then proceed to describe her person in detail, what critic would not
howl? Who would venture to leave the book on a parlor table? But the
artist does this and all ages gather around and look and talk and
point. - Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. -
Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark
Twain

My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine - everybody
drinks water. - Mark Twain

Don't ask me what I want to express with my pictures, ask yourself,
what they mean to you! - Michael Quack

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing
with new eyes. - Marcel Proust

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our
life. - M. C. Richards

Do not fear mistakes - there are none. - Miles David

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need
to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a
playmate with God. - Michele Shea

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow
without giving back. - Ned Rorem, In Art/The Artist

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to
struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance. - Neil
Welliver

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this
life. - Nietzsche

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the
world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the
sordid perils of actual existence. - Oscar Wilde

The past is what man should not have been. The present is what man
ought not to be. The future is what artists are. - Oscar Wilde

The proper school to learn art is not life but art - Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our
perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves
from the sordid perils of actual existence. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has
known. - Oscar Wilde

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has
always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the
artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. - Odilon
Redon

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but
what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo
Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Art is lies that tell the truth. - Pablo Picasso

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to
understand the song of the birds? - Pablo Picasso

I do not seek. I find. - Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso

Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants. -
Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it
five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced
that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the
definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In
drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. - Pablo Picasso

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. - Pablo Picasso

If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like
the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. -
Mrs. Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo
Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but
there are others who with the help of their art and their
intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general;
if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope."  Instead, I became
a painter, and wound up Picasso. - Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

I don't say everything, but I paint everything. - Pablo Picasso

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. - Pablo
Picasso

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set
off a revolution. - Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation. - Paul
Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul
Cezanne

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is
always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with
nature. - Paul Cezanne

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise,
what would become of beauty? - Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks
for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my
secrets. - Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. - Paul
Klee

The more horrifing the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. -
Paul Klee

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. -
Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944)

I am the primitive of the way I have discovered. - Paul Cézanne

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint,
you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing
becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its
fullness also - Paul Cézanne

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. -
Paul Valer

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell
you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask,
Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of
course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being
entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. -
Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter
De Vries

White does not exist in nature. - Pierre Auguste Renoir

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself,
and listen only to his real master: Nature - Pierre Auguste Renoir

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art?
First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be
inimitable. - Pierre Auguste Renoir

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all
flat. - Pierre Auguste Renoir

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of
having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no
one can go any further. - Rainer Maria Rilke

When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to turn back to
the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects
closest to heart. - Raoul Dufy

Art is a way of saying what it means to be alive, and the most
salient feature of existence is the unthinkable odds against it. For
every way that there is of being here, there are an infinity of ways
of not being here. Historical accident snuffs out whole universes
with every clock tick. Statistics declare us ridiculous.
Thermodynamics prohibits us. Life, by any reasonable measure, is
impossible, and my life—this, here, now—infinitely more so. Art is a
way of saying, in the face of all that impossibility, just how worth
celebrating it is to be able to say anything at all. - Richard Powers

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and
limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the
spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of
art or poem. - Rollo May, "The Courage to Create"

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. - Roy Lichtenstein

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done
art. Its a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive.
As far as we know, no other animals do that. - Roy Lichtenstein

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible
permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied
upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity. - Rudolf
Arnheim, "Entropy & Art"

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. - Rene Magritte

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be
thrilling… But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony… I go to
great pains to mask [the agony]. But the struggle is there. It's the
invisible enemy. - Richard Diebenkorn

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a
pocket full of unexposed film. - Robert Adams

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for
writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too
famous. - Robert Benchley

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 -
1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and
an ill provider - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry
it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the hear can
imagine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. -
Rembrandt

Art is a half-effaced recollection of a higher state from which we
have fallen since the time of Eden. - Saint Hildegarde

The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad -
Salvador Dali

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -
Salvador Dali

The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to
detail. - Sebastian J. Barbarito

He who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of
one color on another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an
infinitely diverse imagery. - Sonia Delaunay

Life is not a support system for art. It is the other way around. -
Stephen King

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep. - Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of
one's chosen form. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they
were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of
life. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Life isn't long enough for love and art. - W. Somerset Maugham, The
Moon and Sixpence

He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands
and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head
and his heart is an artist. - St Fancis of Assisi

What is written without effort is in general, read without pleasure. -
Samuel Johnson

[Art] is about as outrageous and murderous an act a person can do
short of really doing one physically. - Steven Wright, In Humor

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the
statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you
have one.  - Stella Adler

Great art can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will
be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly
will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its
material. - T.S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent""

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. - Thomas Wentworth
Higginson

The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. -
Thomas Eakins

You can never do too much drawing. - Tintoretto

In the staircase of life, Art is the only stair that doesn't creak. -
Tom Robbins

My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland
during a world war. - Tom Stoppard


An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is
without significance. Almost dull, in fact. In reality, however,
[it's] crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and [is] full of
expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged ... It
can contain anything but cannot sustain everything ... An empty
canvas is a living wonder -- far lovelier than certain pictures. -
Vasili Kandinsky, (1866-1944)

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels
deeply, he feels tenderly. - Vincent Van Gogh

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

...dass in Wirklichkeit nichts Kunstlerischer ist als die Menschen zu
lieben - Vincent van Gogh, letter #538 from Arles to Theo

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it.
The strokes come like speech. - Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which
one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for
reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. - Vincent
Van Gogh

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public
opinion. - Vincent van Gogh

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall
that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. -
Vincent van Gogh, "The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother"

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Vincent Van Gogh

There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. - Wassily
Kandinsky

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they
destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created. -
William Morris

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the
future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the
present. - Wyndham Lewis

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on,
toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole
or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only
vegetables are happy. - William Faulkner, In Frustration

Art degraded, Imagination denied. - William Blake, In Imagination

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile,
take a trip, do things--the next time I thought of this, I found five
years had gone by. - Willem De Kooning

In his lifetime van Gogh painted 486 paintings. Oddly enough, 8975 of
them are to be found in the United States. - Werner Lansburgh

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones. - Werner
Lansburgh

Normal is in the eye of the beholder. - Whoopi Goldberg

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to
achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently
go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks - Zaffel

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is
finished, the subject reaveals itself.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more! - Claude
Monet, flinging away a pair of glasses for which he had been fitted
to correct a severe astig

Garlic is to Food what Insanity is to Art - Anonymous, In
Senses/Taste

First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting in
the mountains. - Chinese Proverb

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without the work.

Imitation is the most serious form of flattery.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a
painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon
owner.

Art is work, to sell it is art.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean that you're an
artist.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be
themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I
went in for corn. - Walt Disney
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