Quotes About Art

I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-- things I had no words for.

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

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

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.

Art endures long after the tyrants who pay for it are dust. He

The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber What

It is impossible for anyone to adequately express the deep movements of love within the spiritual life. It cannot be done by words, by art, or by any way other than the love with which one lives one's life.

Almond Blossom. if you don't look closely at the rings of the branches, it could be by anyone. well, anyone who was among the greatest painters of the century: matisse, perhaps. anyone who had studied prints from the japanese. anyone who loved light, and living things. anyone who believed in the rebirth of nature, the seasons of existence, the blossoming of the creative.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

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

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.