Quotes About Art

To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare.

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts; it will be beautiful.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

He designed the iconic Bob Dylan poster and the I Love New York icon. Milton Glaser

A rose on a steel stem

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.

D)ying is hard, but living is harder still. —Vincent van Gogh

How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone. -Vincent Van Gogh

Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh

How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone.

The world would not have Vincent without Theo.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

My words were smaller than my feelings at that moment. I had spent my life finding diplomatic words. Am I a diplomat then? Isn't it hard enough to play Beethoven

Fiction is a wonderful home for the reach of the mind.

Tears fall from his eyes and arrange themselves on his cheek like Man Ray tears.

She is color, waiting to be mixed; a painting, ready to be brushed into life. She is a moment, waiting to be fixed forever under a shiny varnish.

The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

Art lies, to tell the truth. Flowers from different seasons bloom impossibly together. Trees are shifted around in the landscape to frame the composition. Rooms are created like stage sets, furnished with the artist's own possessions, where models are arranged in a speechless moment of drama.

If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks

art was a process of evolution - not revolution...

painting was not so much an art movement as a mission to free people from material concerns.

James Montgomery Flagg emerged almost overnight as America's preeminent poster artist. As

his hands got in the way of his art, preventing him from recording sensation as quickly as he experienced it.

the poetry lies in the crude handling of the paint rather than in the subject matter.