Art Quotes

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant...

Each of our five senses contains an art.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

Art like life is an open secret.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his bo...

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in ...

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Adverti...

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow m...

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hou...

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...

Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs h...

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, an...

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; i...

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an ...

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by mea...

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social cont...

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial ...

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence t...

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to ...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the finger...

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through cons...

art is never finished, only abandoned

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity a...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than se...

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does no...

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

As iron rusts when not used, and water gets foul from standing or turns to ice when exposed to cold,...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass...

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark exce...

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he...

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters wh...

Painting is mute poetry, and poetry is blind painting

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negati...

The way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabri...

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being...

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any mo...

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happen...

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar ...

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your t...

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did no...

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly ...

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject not...

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movement...

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to...

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub ...

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through m...

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosph...

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this ...

There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions o...

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art...

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace not...

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working wit...

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject ma...

When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from norm...

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles...

The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished ...

Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence...

If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his w...

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativi...

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things w...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously...

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or ...

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When t...

Art is communication.

Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be ...

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attem...

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it...

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the hum...

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessi...

We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea ...

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.