Quotes About Art

Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette.

Struck down by the kind of nervous distress known only to the most modern of artists and then only those with a private income

Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread.

It is rather frightening to be able to write so revoltingly, yet so successfully. All these letters are works of art, except, perhaps, the last. They are positively oily.

All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*

Marie Laurencin.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Courtiers of all ages feel one great need: to speak in such a way that they do not say anything.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

One funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that's what I tell myself so I don't feel quite as crappy when I've just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.

Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.

On the list of things I cannot draw, wedding dresses are right there next to cars.

I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.

We all think we have our problems, but thank God we don't have husbands who don't support the Guggenheim.

Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere. —CAMILLE PISSARRO

imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.