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"Art is literacy of the heart" ~ Elliot Eisner
"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to
us." ~ Roy Adzak
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change
it, change your
attitude. Don't complain." ~ Maya Angelou
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance
of things, but their inward significance." ~ Aristotle
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
~ Francis Bacon
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints
his own nature into his pictures." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
"What is real is not the external form, but the essence
of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything
essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."
~ Brancusi
"The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures."
~ George Braque
"In whatever one does there must be a relationship between
the eye and the
heart." ~ Henri Cartier-Besson
"What a society deems important is enshrined in its art"
~ Harry (?) Broudy
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
~ Paul Cézanne
"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing
one's sensations."
~ Paul Cézanne
"What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the
artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel
with nature."
~ Paul Cézanne
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to
a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is
not art." ~ Paul Cezanne
"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing."
~ Marc Chagall
"Great art picks up where nature ends." ~ Marc Chagall
"There are more valid facts and details in works of art
than there are in history books."~ Charlie Chaplin
"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."
~ Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) - French artist
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
~ Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Spanish artist
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
~ Leonardo da Vinci
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well
spent brings happy death." ~ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Italian artist
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all
human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But once
these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood
visions and dreams." ~ Giorgio DeChirico
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the
painter do good things." ~ Edgar Degas
"Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very
difficult for
those that do!" ~ Edgar Degas
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
~ Edgar Degas
"If apple is the language of the future, then art must be
the core." ~ Elliot W. Eisner
"What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their
work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that
what has already been said is still not enough." ~ Eugene
Delacroix
"We work not only to produce but to give value to time."
~ Eugene Delacroix
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who
cannot attain it in anything." ~ Eugene Delacroix
"The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement
of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently."
~ Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) - French artist
"When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to
turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into
the subjects closest to heart."
~ Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) - French artist
"The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her
tools."
~Thomas Eakins
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
~ Albert Einstein
"We live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos
without norms,
even though this is how it sometimes appears." ~ M. C. Escher
(Dutch)
"Art is a passion or it is nothing." ~ Robert Fry (Vision
and Design)
"A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting
places."
~ Paul Gardner
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution." ~ Paul Gaugin
"I shut my eyes in order to see." or "I close
my eyes in order to see"
~ Paul Gaugin
"...the object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to
create a reality of the same intensity." ~ Alberto Giacometti
"Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."
~ Eric Gill
"The essence of drawing is the line exploring space."
~ Andy Goldsworthy
"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of
marvels."
~ Francisco Goya (1746-1828) - Spanish artist
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
"Fill a space in a beautiful way" ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is
so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have
a friend takes time." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
"One day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself
-- I can't live where I want to -- I can't go where I want to
go--I can't do what I want to -- I can't even say what I want
to --....I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint
as I wanted to." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe, 1923
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I
couldn't say any other way-things I had no words for." ~
Georgia O'Keeffe
"If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do
with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it."
~ Claes Oldenburg
"Imagination is the true magic carpet." ~ Norman Vincent
Peale
"Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth."
~ Pablo Picasso
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~ Pablo Picasso
"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."
~ Pablo Picasso
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime
to paint like a
child." ~ Pablo Picasso
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain
an artist once he grows up." ~ Pablo Picasso
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
~ Pablo Picasso
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
~ Pablo Picasso
"It takes a very long time to become young." ~ Pablo
Picasso
"What good are computers? They can only give you answers."
~ Pablo Picasso
"I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this
world except through art."
~ Daniel Pinkwater (author)
"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places
where other people see nothing." ~ Camille Pissarro
"Every good painter paints what he is." ~ Jackson Pollock
"The painting has a life of its own." ~ Jackson Pollock
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then by all means, send them in. We like to hear what artists have
to say about their own works, so if an artist says something, we
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