Quotes about art
art work satisfaction
I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise. Frida Kahlo
artist expression painting
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
art lions surprise
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
art color voice
It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.
art reality painting
I paint my own reality.
art ingredients absence
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. Freya Stark
art travel journey
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
art silence utterance
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
art doors law
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
art philosophy light
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
art untruthfulness advertising
The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
art lying clouds
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
art wish fundamentals
The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.
art paint term
I see things in terms of paint, all else is irrelevant.
artist focus sticks
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too. Fred Wilson
art believe form
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. Fred Tomaselli
art school stuff
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
art reality perception
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
art miracle atmosphere
There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me. Frank McCourt
art war inspiration
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric. Napoleon Bonaparte
art police useless
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
art war lying
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
art government let-me
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
art power want
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
art jobs power
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
art men giving
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
art war space
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
art men great-art
Time is the great art of man.
art men enabling
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
art secret prudent
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
art military war
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
art fire battle
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
artist yield spirit
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. Odilon Redon