Quotes About Art

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.

When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.