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Quotes About Art

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.
~ Terri Guillemets
Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.
~ Konfal Blyther
Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.
~ Terri Guillemets
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.
~ Terri Guillemets
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.
~ Terri Guillemets
Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
~ Agnes Repplier
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~ Walter Gropius
An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.
~ Terri Guillemets
Book ink is blood-drops of author-heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
Right breathing is the art of all arts.
~ Author Unknown
Cats are sleeping art.
~ Terri Guillemets
Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
~ Claude Monet
In fact, why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?
~ Pablo Picasso
It is an absolute fact that shadows are as much colours as lights are...
~ John Ruskin, "Colour," 1870
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.
~ Agnes de Mille, 1975
I care not a job about the technology of the art of dancing... All that concerns me is how beautifully or how expressively a dancer can dance...
~ Bernard Shaw, 1890
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
~ Author Unknown
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
~ Terence
...all dreams are a piece of vivid painting to the mind's eye...
~ C. C. Colton
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
~ Proverb
Hydrangea — watercolor'd confetti-bursting flowery garden art
~ Terri Guillemets
Every artist's illimitable country is himself.
~ E.E. Cummings, 1945
Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1876
The thing about glitter is, if you get it on you be prepared to have it on you forever because glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
~ Demetri Martin