Quotes About Art

Put your pen to your paper Press down on the ink Then take a short moment To ponder and think And listen real close to your heart's gentle call Then write every word that you hear, One and all.

There are no rules to creativity.

There is no greater artist than a tree in autumntime.

What is made from the heart is a masterpiece.

The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.

Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult, a book may be a work of art, possibly a very great one, but for the child reader, certain books are universes. If we are lucky, we retain some of that capacity to be immersed in a story.

I read for the language, not the story.

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

be something every minute of every day, be sad, be cold, be warm, be hungry, be full, be ragged or well dressed, be truthful, be a liar and a sinner, only be something every blessed minute. Make art, make the most beautiful art you can, draw everything you see, everything you feel. And when you sleep, dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is lost.

Art isn't about where it ends up. It's about the creation.

But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentiveness of eyebrow pencils is perhaps a picture of the very sort of bodily care our embodied God would have us cultivate, weather in illness or wellness, whether our bodies are in the throes of ecstasy or the throes of pain.

I can often be found in an art museum. Mostly I like being in a museum because I find visual art both absorbing and disorienting. I don't know very much about painting. I have taken exactly one art history course, and I can't draw a credible stick figure. I like being in a space where my senses are stimulated, indeed swamped, and where I don't know enough to think my way out of the experience.

There is an elaborate North African mezuzah case that dates to sometime in the 1700s, and by the nineteenth century Jews in Russia, eastern Europe, and Morocco were shaping mezuzah cases out of silver, creating miniature arks and fish and other pretty symbols in which to house their slices of parchment.

Luigi, the art teacher, holds up his brush, and we all do the same. I'm not quite sure why we're mirroring his action, but Luigi is very compelling, more than capable of making four excited girls calm down and concentrate on what he's telling us. I think it's partly because he's very serious. Either he doesn't have a sense of humor, or it's extremely well hidden.

Eleanor peeled back the sleeve of her T-shirt to show off a small helicopter tattoo on her shoulder.

Elizabeth sat for a portrait designed to capture the grandeur of the occasion. In the painting

If you want to make something in your own image, you must sacrifice a part of yourself.

Sophia is an artist, making this visible underworld an image of the glorious Archetype.

An image resists explanation. You relate to it or you do not. You cannot disagree with an image. Through identification with an image you comprehend a totality, rather than learn particular facts.