Quotes about art
art joy want
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. Ellsworth Kelly
art painting window
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.
art honesty real
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
art bad-ass shadow
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
art time long
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
art two forever
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
art school boys
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.
art block yesterday
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
art glory used
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.
art architecture architect
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
art lessons shapes
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
art heart grace
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
art freedom commitment
Resolve and thou art free.
art children art-is
Art is the child of Nature.
art eye exercise
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.
art design branding
If design isn't profitable, then it's art. Henrik Fisker
art hands drawing
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. Henri Rousseau
art math names
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. Henri Poincare
art math names
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
art math figures
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.
art civilization development
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One cannot do just anything. A talented artist cannot do whatever he pleases. If he only used his gifts, he would not exist. We are not the masters of what we produce. It is imposed on us. Henri Matisse
art taken expression
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
art matter beholder
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...
art blue sky
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
art use elements
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
art language importance
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
art taken needs
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.
artist hatred soul
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
artist creative effort
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.
artist tree may
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
artist roles currents
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.
art reality art-is
Art is an escape from reality.
art giving aristocracy
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.