Art Quotes Art quotes by famous artists and not-so-famous artists.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -George Bernard Shaw A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. 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. There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. I dream my painting and then paint my dream. An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Art is not a thing; it is a way. To draw you must close your eyes and sing. We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. If I could say it (in) words there would be no reason to paint. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Every good painter paints what he is. The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. There is no must in art because art is free. To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams. I shut my eyes in order to see. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Painting is silent poetry. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. 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. It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Art is what reveals to us the state of perfection. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. All great art is a visual form of prayer. Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. All art requires courage. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. 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. Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. Art, being quite useless, except to the soul, is the highest of all human endeavors. To be an artist is to believe in life. To top of Art Quotes page Back to Quotes categories page Back to Self-Help-Healing-Arts-Journal homepage
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