Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Art

Art

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.--Albert Einstein (in the Durban Morning Herald, 8/21/55)
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfaction but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.--Dorothy Thompson ("The Twelve-foot Ceiling" The Courage to be Happy)
Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can affect change--it can not only move us, it makes us move.--Ossie Davis (Noble, Beautiful, Also, Are the Souls of My Black Sisters)
Art advances between two chasms, which are frivolity and propaganda. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lies the freedom of art.--Albert Camus ("Create Dangerously" Resistance, Rebellion, and Death)
Art comes after an incredible load of work and only one thing will see you through that work--passion.--Don Hahn (Dancing Corn Dogs in the Night: Reawakening Your creative Spirit)
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.--Walter Pater (Studies in the History of the Renaissance)
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate a taste.--Nikki Giovanni
Art is the signature of civilizations.--Beverly Sills (Interview, 1985)
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.--Pablo Picasso
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.--Joseph Conrad
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.--Scott Adams
Ever since the first shaggy hunter outlined a running deer with a stick dipped in wood ash or puddle clay or blood, paint has served a vastly more significant and creative purpose--as a vehicle for the human imagination, a creator of illusions, the modest but endlessly pliable means of fixing a glimpse of loveliness for posterity. The true originators in this field have always been the great artists. But close behind these masters of illusion came the masters of the applied arts--designers, architects, decorators, legions of craftsmen whose vocation was to reflect contemporary standards of beauty and harmony.--Jocasta Innes
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.--Daniel Berenboim (International Herald Tribune, Jan. 20. 1989)
For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.--May Sarton (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)
Good architecture is like apiece of beautifully composed music crystallized as space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.--Tao Ho
"How will I ever get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art?" the aspiring young artist asked a great teacher. "You can either take the Fifth Avenue bus to 81st Street," said the teacher, "or work hard, be inspired, wait 20 years, and have them come to you."--Leonard and Thelma Spinrad
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.--Madelein L'Engle (A Circle of Quiet)
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.--Michelangelo
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.--Louise Nevelson
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.--Loren Eiseley (The Night Country)
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.--Abraham Maslow
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.--Robert James Waller (Puerto Vallarta Squeeze)
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.--Cyril Connolly (The Unquiet Grave)
Whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.--Julia Cameron
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.--Henri Matisse (Notes d'un Peintre)
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.--Albert Camus (Resistance, Rebellion, and Death)