Quotes About Art

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Leadership is the science of converting possibilities in to realities and the art of drawing a picture that others think is their.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

White paint can be made of many things. It can come from chalk or zinc, barium or rice, or from little fossilized sea creatures in limestone graves. The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent whites with a recipe that included alabaster and quartz—in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance.3

But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While

Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings, Jean-Marie Chauvet

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

I like a work of art for what it means to me.

Collioure from La Tour Vieille.

Beauty rubs off. You cannot stand face-to-face with a Rembrandt and walk away the same person.

As a rule, young children don't complain of wanting to fingerpaint but finding themselves mysteriously unable to do so.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

How do you know you've made a great work of art? A great work of art is something as real as reality itself, and sometimes even more real than the real. Long after this war is forgotten, when its existence is a paragraph in a schoolbook students won't even bother to read, and everyone who survived it is dead, their bodies dust, their memories atoms, their emotions no longer in motion, this work of art will still shine so brightly it will not just be about the war but it will be the war.