Quotes About Art

Art is a little subversive, very subversive; it gets underneath the surface and reveals what is there; it is a Geiger counter for truth.

Art is my spiritual path.... Art is my prayer, my ritual, my remembrance of the Divine. Art is the way I knit together the beliefs and practices that guide my life.

Art is a vehicle that allows us to transcend linear time, to travel backward and forward into personal and transpersonal history, into possibilities that weren't realized and those that might be.

It's only fabric! Freestyle fabric cutting and sewing is a low-risk endeavor with a strong payoff of personal growth and empower- ment.

Take a good look at your fabric and intuit what it is saying to you.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

To speak, to write , without charm is to make utterances without reference to a reality outside oneself. It is an act devoid of the playfulness of art, without the attractive humility of one who know absolutely that others exist and therefore feels drawn to please them, because to give them an instant of pleasure is to acknowledge their existence.

To put human-made objects in their proper place as tools, we must learn the art of contentment.

Miss Skylark once said it's heroic to make something beautiful out of a blank page," I say. "With art or words.

Out of our writer mouths Will come clouds Rising to the sky Dropping rain words below. And when the clouds leave The sun will shine down word After word After word Planting our stories in the earth. —Russell

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

Patricia Ryan Madson

But you have poetry, you say. And if you can tell me what poetry is, where the line is drawn between the beauty and the breathing of breath into something to make it beautiful, I will claim poetry as my own."-Patricia Smith

La beauté ne demande pas qu'on l'apprenne, qu'on la récite ou qu'on l'applique. Elle bouleverse, éveille, réveille. Elle inspire.

I sacrifice everything to the music of the words.

To Mame, conventional thinking and Early American décor are a prison; she advocates total sexual freedom, world travel, and "the feverish excitement of the creative career!" Mame believes that life must be art,

A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life

I find a star-lovely art In a dark sod. Joy that is timeless! O heart That knows God!

To be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will begin tomorrow.

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page.

Copyright (C) 2012 by Elizabeth Bear

BRIT MANDELO The Finite Canvas