Quotes About Art

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

Great artists have no country.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

às vezes precisamos escrever nossos sentimentos, mas não necessariamente precisamos compartilhá-los

Mom used to say that a picture wasn't worth anything if it didn't produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.

I was reminded of how much I love photography. The chance to capture a moment of time, forever.

Podemos empezar partiendo de algo muy pequeño. Abre un documento nuevo o coge una hoja de papel en blanco. Será nuestro lienzo. Recuerda lo que Miguel Ángel dijo sobre que la escultura estaba en el interior de la piedra, que estaba allí desde un buen principio, y que su trabajo consistía en extraerla. Tus palabras también están ahí.

Art is spirituality in drag.

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I only said I loved you in my poetry.

but the view was utterly breathtaking. She felt as if she were in the middle of a living, breathing painting in a million shades of green.

Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.