Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Art - Quotes

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - H. L. Mencken

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent…there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed. - Virginia Woolf

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. - Vincent van Gogh

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein

The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P. T. Barnum

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. - Tennessee Williams

The painting rises from the brush strokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. - Joan Miro

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself. - Robert Henri

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication. - Cyril Connolly

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modelling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it. - Lewis Foreman Day

The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence. - George Henry Lewes

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. - Craig Raine

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led. - Paul Park

The work of art is above all a process of creation. - Paul Klee

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes. - Leonardo da Vinci

The act of painting is not a duplication of experience but the extension of experience on the plane of formal invention. - Stuart Davis

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards, you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso

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

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