Quotes about art
art nature flower
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet
art mean giving
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors...
art bird way
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
artist reflection way
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
art thinking blue
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.
artist air bridges
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.
art hands giving
Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
art spring flower
So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.
art
All of nature is God's art. Dante Alighieri
art grandchildren able
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
art three looks
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through Dan Rice
art careers obscurity
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. Dan Simmons
art opportunity skills
Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
art drunk quality
Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.
art moving artist
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
art art-and-music interpretation
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation. Dan Reynolds
art mistake blow
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. Dan Rather
art journalism crude
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
art thinking light
One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find. Dan Flavin
art risk records
I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being. Dan Fogelberg
art giving way
It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.
art school college
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.
art college degrees
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
artist want life-is
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to
art thinking design
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. Cynthia Rowley
art character writing
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. Cynthia Ozick
art reality past
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. Cyril Connolly
art enemy atheism
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
art fall dark
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
artist nostalgia
The artist secretes nostalgia around life.
art blow noses
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.
artist imagination today
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
artist class pay
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.