I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
More quotations from G. K. Chesterton I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: advice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The Victorian Age made one or two mistakes, but they were mistakes that were really useful; that is, mistakes that were really mistaken. They thought that commerce outside a country must extend peace; it has certainly often extended war. They thought that commerce inside a country must certainly promote prosperity; it has largely promoted poverty. But for them these were experiments; for us they ought to be lessons. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: advice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Victorian Age made one or two mistakes, but they were mistakes that were really useful; that is, mistakes that were really mistaken. They thought that commerce outside a country must extend peace; it has certainly often extended war. They thought that commerce inside a country must certainly promote prosperity; it has largely promoted poverty. But for them these were experiments; for us they ought to be lessons. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “art” I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: inspiration freedom accomplishment art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. —Eugene Delacroix More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: maturity art novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: inspiration freedom accomplishment art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. —Eugene Delacroix More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: maturity art novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email