Quotes About Art

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

But no jagged simile, no disjointed paragraph can come close to describing real pain. Pain is its own language. Each description feels false, decorative, like I'm pouring watercolors into the crater of a bomb site (see, I'm failing even now).

Of course, all forms of creativity are a way of dipping one's toes in the essence of the divine.

What is the answer to this addition? 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ?

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Life is a sculpture, chip, chip, chip. In good time, with good patience, even the most formidable rock can be shaped.

The art of feeding, it turns out, is not about pushing 'one more bite' into someone's mouth, however healthy the food. Nor is it about authoritarian demands to abstain from all treats. It is about creating a mealtime environment where those eating are free to develop their own tastes, because all the choices on the table are real, whole food.

Every thought and feeling is a painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which we are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards, when finished and dry.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with him.

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In one of Chekhov's short stories, a little boy is drawing a picture. His father asks him why the man in the picture is taller than the house. "If he were smaller," says the child reasonably, "you couldn't see his eyes." ENTRY:

She hoped the examination would not take too long because she had to take Patty to her art class, shop for tonight's dinner, and fix the hem of Patty's new dress for her sixth birthday party next week.

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it's to imagine what is possible.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

For where there is love of man, there is love of the art." AESCULAPIUS

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that' Dizzy Gillespie