Category: Art Quotes SMS

The artist’s talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonQNFQ

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place:  from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.  ~Pablo Picasso

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.  ~Augustus Saint-GaudensCOCI

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul ? and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.  The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.  ~Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915LCD

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.  ~André MalrauxCUL

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.  ~Kojiro TomitaCUL

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, ‘Moon, Weeping’ has a better ring to it than ‘Paintbrush, Dripping.’  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.  ~Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971SS

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.  ~André Gide

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.  ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

Painting is silent poetry.  ~Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.  ~Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCUL

A portrait has one advantage over its original:  it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it.  I have seen portraits which have more.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

I don’t paint things.  I only paint the difference between things.  ~Henri MatisseSD

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.  ~Twyla Tharp, quoted in Highs by Alex J. Packer

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.  ~George Bernard Shaw

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?  ~Pablo Picasso

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression.  The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths.  Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.  To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.  ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891SS

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.  ~Oscar Wilde

Art consists of limitation.  The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.  ~G.K. Chesterton

Architecture begins where engineering ends.  ~Walter Gropiusin Heyer, ed., Architects on Architecture, 1978LCD

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.  ~Schumann

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.  ~Andy Warhol

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.  ~Konfal Blyther2010email

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.  ~Terri Guillemets

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work.  ~Henry Moore

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? – a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.  ~James Russell Lowell

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.  ~George SantayanaSD

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.  ~Alfred TonnelleMCTO

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.  The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.  ~Henry Miller

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.  ~Pablo Picasso

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Art disturbs, science reassures.  ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuitWLBUQ

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.  ~Scott Adams

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.  ~G.K. Chesterton

Art doesn’t have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.  ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.comhowtomatter.com/the-highest-goal-of-any-art

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses?  Girls are so much prettier.  ~Marie LaurencinFrench painter, quoted in Time magazine, 1956

Art is not a thing; it is a way.  ~Elbert Hubbard

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty.  It is their decoration that initiates art.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.  ~George Moore

Let me ask you something, what is not art?  ~Author Unknown

But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.  ~The New Yorker

There is in every artist’s studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist’s discipline prevailed against his imagination.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.  ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking… a small glimpse of what they hold inside.  Little secrets, regrets, joys… every line has its own meaning.  ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

One of the best things about paintings is their silence – which prompts reflection and random reverie.  ~Mark Stevens

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.  ~Charles Horton Cooley

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.  ~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue.  Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.  ~Jules Feiffer

The artist’s world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep.  ~Paul Strand

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.  ~Henri Matisse, Notes d’un peintre, 1908WLBUQ

Great art picks up where nature ends.  ~Marc Chagall

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.  ~John Anthony Ciardi, Saturday Review, 23 January 1957, MBT p266

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.  Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy“The Maniac” NA

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.  ~Robin Tylerspeech to gay-rights rally, Washington, 9 Jan 1988

God and other artists are always a little obscure.  ~Oscar Wilde, to Ada Leverson, Dec 1894; BTSG

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.  ~Glenn Closein More, quoted in rdqq sep2002

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.  ~Albert CamusSD