Quotes about art
art inability boundaries
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. Emile Zola
art creation temperament
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. Emile Zola
art artist loud
I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
art victory moral
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. Emile M. Cioran
art anomalies way
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. Emile M. Cioran
art interesting-situations design
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content. Ellen Lupton
art people design
Design is art that people use, Ellen Lupton
art church
Art, that great undogmatized church. Ellen Key
art world abstract
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Ellen Key
art purpose fiction
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated. Ellen Glasgow
art writing interesting
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ... Ellen Glasgow
art thinking psychology
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung. Ellen Glasgow
art perfection enough
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature. Ellen Glasgow
art thinking repose
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
art philosophy blessed
Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture. Epicurus
art philosophy history
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. Epicurus
art faculty certain
Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects. Epictetus
art mind dresses
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest. Epictetus
art filmmaking
For me, I see filmmaking as art. Emily Browning
art giving-up taken
Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold. Emily Carr
art real art-is
real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things. Emily Carr
art struggle school
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce. Emily Carr
art people looks
Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same... Emily Carr
art peace incompetence
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God. Emily Carr
art thinking growth
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr
art soul inspired
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts. Emily Carr
artist spiders merit
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified. Emily Dickinson
art discovery color
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors. Emil Nolde
artist empathy kind
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. Emil Nolde
art add spirituality
A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality. Emil Nolde
art blue sky
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. Emil Nolde
artist needs breathe
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. Emil Nolde
art reality strikes
Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it. Elmer Rice