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ART QUOTATIONS
The artist is a
receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky,
from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a
spider's web. - Pablo Picasso
The true artist has the
planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has
nothing broader than his shoes. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
I am enough of an artist to draw freely
upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -
Albert Einstein
In art
the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The practice of art isn't to make
a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut
A painter is a man who
paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he
paints. - Pablo Picasso
Bad artists copy. Great
artists steal. - Pablo Picasso
Where the spirit does not work
with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci
First I saw the mountains in the painting; then I saw the painting
in the mountains. – Chinese Proverb
Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very
difficult when you do. – Edgar Degas
We must never forget that
art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. -
John F. Kennedy
Bad
artists always admire each others work. -
Oscar Wilde
Art
enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
There is nothing more difficult
for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can
do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. -
Henri Matisse.
Art
does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. - Paul Klee
Art
washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso
Art is
an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those
willing to take the risks. - Mark Rothko
Art is
making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
Every artist dips
his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Form
is the outer expression of inner meaning. - Wassily Kandinsky
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to
learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! -
Christian Cardell
Corbet
I often think that
the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
- Vincent van Gogh
Art is
not what you see, but what you make others see. - Edgar Degas.
Looking is a gift, but seeing
is a power. - Jeff Berner
In art, the hand can never execute
anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
To live a creative life, we must
lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pierce
I am always doing that which I can
not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. -
Claude Monet
Imagination is more important than
knowledge - Albert Einstein
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. -
Albrecht Durer
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live
in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson.
Art teaches nothing except the significance of life.
- Henry Miller
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