Art Quotes - random
The mind is like a sea, few are those who dare sail, most stand on the shore and watch. Artist pages. (A.S.)
Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Luckily, David is able to vent everything through his art ... because otherwise somebody might be dead.
Art is not a pastime, it is a duty with respect to the people, a public affair.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.
(art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Art is the perfection of nature.
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.