Quotes about art
art imagination creeps
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. Diana Krall
art children feet
What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained. Diana Gabaldon
art patterns chaos
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
art pain memories
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.
art eye owl
That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
art painting
I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting. Dennis Hopper
art style actors
Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.
art painting possibility
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.
art taken names
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
art mean california
You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.
artist generations want
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
art brother dad
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents. Denise Mina
art thinking nsa
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. Edward Snowden
art believe blessed
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work. Edward Elgar
art painting found
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me. Edward G. Robinson
art book writing
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon
art history might
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.
artist roles labels
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
art attitude brutality
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. Edgar Degas
artist imagination firsts
A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.
art artist doe
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
artist rewards
The frame is the reward of the artist.
art air two
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.
art battle art-is
Art is really a battle.
art intelligent thinking
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do not see them? . . . I can find the best and clearest words to explain my meaning, and I have spoken to the most intelligent people about art, and they have not understood; but among people who understand, words are not necessary, you say humph, he, ha and everything has been said.
artist criminals spirit
An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.
artist should
I should like to be famous and unknown.
art stupid thinking
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
artist two imagination
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
art sadness littles
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.
artist solitude wish
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
art reflection doubt
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.
art vices art-is
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.