Art Quotes (55) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Art. Art is an activity or creation by people that has importance because of an attraction to the human senses. The arts represent an outlet of expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
~ Vincent van Gogh
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
~ Edgar Degas
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
~ Barbara Kruger
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
~ Scott Adams
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
~ Cesar Cruz
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
To be an artist is to believe in life.
~ Henry Moore
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
~ Steven Pressfield
Art is not thinking something up; it is the opposite - getting something down.
~ Julia Cameron
Art teaches nothing but the significance of life.
~ Henry Miller
Don't apologize for who you are or the art you create.
~ C. J. Rider
Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
~ Ilya Kabakov
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum.
~ Ansel Adams
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
~ Konstantin Stanislavsky
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
~ Seth Goden
Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
~ Alex Grey
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
~ Seth Goden
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
~ Seth Goden
Art is a step from what is obvious toward what is concealed.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
~ Seth Goden
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
~ Auguste Rodin
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
~ Michelangelo
All art, whether it pleases us or not, helps to add color, excitement, joy, or sadness and, most often, a sense of awe to our life's experience.
~ Henry O. Dorman
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
~ Wynona Mulcaster
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
~ Barbara Mason
Art is the journey of a free soul.
~ Alev Oguz
Art upsets, science reasures.
~ Georges Braque
All art is subversive.
~ Pablo Picasso
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
~ Oscar Wilde
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~ Twyla Tharp
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~ Paul Gauguin
Art is whatever you can get away with.
~ John Cage
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~ Thomas Merton
Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.
~ Shaun McNiff
Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.
~ Pablo Picasso
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
~ Émile Zola
Art is the child of Nature.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All art requires courage.
~ Anne Tucker
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
~ M.C. Richards
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Art is the proper task of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Pablo Picasso
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
~ Anatole France
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
~ Peter Gabriel
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
~ Julia Cameron
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create form a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
~ Jasper Johns
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
~ Pablo Picasso
I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life.
~ D.T. Suzuki
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