Thursday, December 9, 2010

WisE WorDs On WorKs Of ART



A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~ Michelangelo

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. ~Oscar Wilde

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ~ Gertrude Stein

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. ~ Paul Valery

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~ Thomas Marton

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~ Andre Gide

Art is science made clear.  ~Wilson Mizner

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~ Amy Lowell

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. ~ Oscar Wilde

Art is the proper task of life. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~ Theodore Dreiser

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Pablo Picasso

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ~ Stephen Sondheim

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. ~ Anish Kapoor

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every good painter paints what he is. ~ Jackson Pollock

Great art picks up where nature ends. ~ Marc Chagall

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~ John Ruskin

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. ~ Franz Liszt

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~ Oscar Wilde

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ~ Theodore Bikel

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ Pablo Picasso

Rules and models destroy genius and art. ~ William Hazlitt

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ~Alexander Pope

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ~ Novalis

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ~ Pablo Picasso

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. ~ Abraham Lincoln

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ~ Ellen Key

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. ~ Jerzy Kosinski

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. ~ Theodor Adorno

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ~ Michelangelo

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. ~ Henry David Thoreau

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ~ Robert Schumann
 
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. ~ Pablo Picasso

We have art in order not to die of the truth. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe

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