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Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Twyla Tharp
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.Stella Adler
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry
Painting is silent poetry.Leonardo da Vinci
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.Kojiro Tomita
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.Amy Lowell
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Schumann
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.Pablo Picasso
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist."Charles Horton Cooley
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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. "Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.Paul Strand
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.Anne Tucker
All art requires courage.Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.Henry Moore
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.Andr, Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.The New Yorker
But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.Fran Lebowitz
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends."Howard Ikemoto
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, ""You mean they forget?"" "G.K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.John Updike
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.Henry Miller
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.Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.Author Unknown
Let me ask you something, what is not art?Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.Andy Warhol
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.Kenneth Tynan
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.Oscar Wilde
God and other artists are always a little obscure.Georges Rouault
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.Aaron Howard
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.Ernst Levy
Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.John Anthony Ciardi
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.Pablo Picasso
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.Pablo Picasso
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?Dena Groquet
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page.Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is an adventure that never seems to end.Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is pictures straight from the heart.Robin Tyler
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos.Glenn Close
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.Jean Paul Richter
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life."Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. "Mark Stevens
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.Ben Jonson
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.Augustus Saint-Gaudens
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit
Art disturbs, science reassures.Audrey Foris
Art is the struggle to understand.John Lubbock
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.Jennifer Yane
Art is spirituality in drag.Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.Martin H. Fischer
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.Willa Cather
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.George Santayana
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.Lincoln Steffens
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing; it is a way. "James McNeill Whistler
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.G.K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses.Valentine Sterling
Grammar stops at love, and at art.Andr, Malraux
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world."Paul Val,ry
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ""Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. "Oscar Wilde
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.Adeline Cullen Ray
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.Alfred Tonnelle
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.Albert Camus
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.Holden Rinehart
An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.William McElcheran
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.Dena Groquet
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.Giacomo Puccini
Art is a kind of illness.George Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.Corri Alius
A man and his art are like a fool and his king.Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'