Category Detail for Art (24 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Amy Allcott Art Nature There's always music amongst the trees, but our hearts have to be real quiet to hear it.
2 Andre Gide Art Inspiration Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
3 Ayn Rand Art Art One of the cardinal pleasures of life is offered to man by works of art. Art, at its highest potential, as the projection of things as they might and ought to be, can provide man with an invaluable emotional fuel. But, again, the kind of art works one responds to, depends on one's deepest values and premises.
4 Ayn Rand Art Modern Art Modern art is an attempt to disintegrate man’s consciousness and reduce it to a pre-conceptual level; A breaking of concepts into mere sensations. Disintegration is the keynote and goal of modern art. The disintegration of man’s conceptual faculty and the retrogression of an adult mind to the state of an infant. To reduce man’s consciousness to the level of sensation with no capacity to integrate them is the intention behind the reducing of language to grunts, of literature to moods, of painting to smears, of sculpture to slabs, of music to noise.
5 Charles Hawthorne Art Simplicity We must teach ourselves…to see the beauty of the commonplace. It is so much greater to make much out of little than to make little out of much - Better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
6 Frank Lloyd Wright Art Architecture To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
7 Frank Lloyd Wright Art Architecture A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
8 Friedrich Nietzsche Art Art We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
9 Henry David Thoreau Art Nature Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; Referred to herself, she is genius...Our art leaves its shavings and its dust about; her art exhibits itself even in the shavings and the dust which we make.
10 Janice Kapp Perry Art Creativity Experience has taught me that the more specifically I phrase the requests and instructions that I direct to my subconscious, the more successful the exercise will become.
11 Janice Kapp Perry Art Sensitivity There is a fine line between sensitivity and sentimentality…Sensitivity seems to touch and uplift the listener, while sentimentality goes one step too far and plays on the listener's emotions in an uncomfortable way.
12 John Constable Art Nature Selection and combination are learned from nature herself, who constantly presents us with compositions of her own, far more beautiful than the happiest arranged by human skill.
13 Leo Tolstoy Art Art The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it. To take the simplest example; one man laughs, and another who hears becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another who hears feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man seeing him comes to a similar state of mind.
14 LifeTips.com Art Funding Pursuing your art can limit your income - though hopefully only in the early stages. While you need to be responsible and thus perhaps move toward earning money from your art, you also need support from people who get it (that you are a talented - let's hope - driven artist or writer). Gravitate toward people who can be supportive of artists. You will find it helps your art tremendously.
15 Robert Henri Art Inspiration Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.
16 Robert Henri Art Inspiration There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
17 Robert Henri Art Art Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. There are ever so many better ways...If one is a painter this purest freedom must exist at the time of painting. This is as much as to say that a painter may give up his hope of making his living as a painter but must make it some other way. This is generally true, although some do, by a freak of appreciation, make enough while going their way to live sufficiently well. Perhaps this happens, but I am not sure but that there is some curtailing of the purity of the freedom. I was once asked by a young artist whether he could hope to make any money out of his work if he continued in his particular style of painting. He happened to be a man of considerable talent and had great enthusiasm for his work. But I knew there was no public enthusiasm for such work. I remembered he had told me that before he got really into art he had made a living by designing labels for cans, tomato cans and the like. I advised him to make tomato-can labels and live well that he might be free to paint as he liked.
18 Robert Henri Art Philosophy Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers, read, study, think a great deal of life...
19 Robert Henri Art Work Like to do your work as much as a dog likes to gnaw a bone and go at it with equal interest and exclusion of everything else.
20 Robert Henri Art Ideas The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea. He should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. If his will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.
21 Robert Henri Art Attitude Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is the one great essential.
22 Valentin Serov Art Spontaneity One must know how to work hard for a long time, but in such a manner that nobody would notice the amount of labor and sweat on that painting.
23 Valentin Serov Art Simplicity Where simplicity prevails angels hail.
24 Vincent Van Gogh Art Inspiration Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.