Quotes About Art

The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; only the sculptor's hand can break the spell to free the figures.

The best of artists hath no art to show, Which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include, To break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Disegnia e no prder tepo [sic]

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

Paint it black

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Children often give clues that they are disturbed in their play and in their art. Therapists should explore the sexual and aggressive fantasies of children and should not be so naïve as to think that children as young as five do not have the capacity to fantasise about raping and mutilating their mothers. They do, believe me.

For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

lo más liberador del arte es que le hace a uno dudar de que exista.

El mundo es un caleidoscopio. La lógica la pone el hombre. El supremo arte es el del azar.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

But consuming culture is never as rewarding as producing it.

There are natives of New Guinea who spend more time looking in the jungle for the colorful feathers they use for decoration in their ritual dances than they spend looking for food. And this is by no means a rare example: art, play, and ritual probably occupy more time and energy in most cultures than work.

It does not matter whether we see or we not-see, as long as we are in control of what is happening to us. The same person can meditate in the morning and shut out all sensory experience, and then look at a great work of art in the afternoon; either way he may be transformed by the same sense of exhilaration.

The same person can meditate in the morning and shut out all sensory experience, and then look at a great work of art in the afternoon; either way he may be transformed by the same sense of exhilaration.

In the 1960s, when abstract expressionism was the reigning style, those art students who tended to be sullen, brooding, and antisocial were thought by their teachers to be very creative.

competition as their main feature, such as most sports and athletic events; alea is the class that includes all games of chance, from dice to bingo; ilinx, or vertigo, is the name he gives to activities that alter consciousness by scrambling ordinary perception, such as riding a merry-go-round or skydiving; and mimicry is the group of activities in which alternative realities are created, such as dance, theater, and the arts in general.