Quotes About Art

Contour, negative space, and measurements. You just learned the three important lessons in drawing and saved yourself four years of art school.

Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

Making art will show you how much you already have. Your real treasures. A brand-new Maserati is a lot less beautiful to draw than a rusty old pickup.

Van Gogh summarized this entire book in a single sentence: "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing.

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Get used to eating cold toast. Draw your breakfast every day. Then eat it.

Un disegno dieci minuti di pan tostato è un zilione di volte meglio di un disegno a zero minuto di pan tostato.

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Beauty like hers is genius.

Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger

there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

She knew then, if without the words to express it, that what she was studying was not simply music but beauty, and that she wanted to inhabit, completely, that beauty—and

That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

What made her angry was art that no one looked at, things that were hidden that needed to be seen.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

Too much conscious mind mucks up the artist's natural creativity.

If you draw, if you dance, if you like poetry, if you like spoken word, whatever, if you like polka dots—use who you are, who you really are, as a positive. That's your superpower.