Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. —Jack Levine More about this quote Tags: character art individuality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. —Frida Kahlo More about this quote Tags: reality art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. —André Gide More about this quote Tags: prejudice art work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. —Guillaume Apollinaire More about this quote Tags: art inhuman Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: love beauty creation art taste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. —Ansel Adams More about this quote Tags: ideas communication art photography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century. —Marshall McLuhan More about this quote Tags: art advertising Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. —Plato More about this quote Tags: love poetry art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. —Otto Dix More about this quote Tags: beauty art ugliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. —George Henry Lewes More about this quote Tags: imagination philosophy art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that's how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you're not one of them, you're just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning, and I could start something. —Brian Eno More about this quote Tags: art creativity effort originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the long history of man, countless empires and nations have come and gone. Those which created no lasting works of art are reduced today to short footnotes in history's catalog. Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves, and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a Nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. We in America have not always been kind to the artists and the scholars who are the creators and the keepers of our vision. Somehow, the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: history vision art heritage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill — it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: art work mental illness crazy outsider immersion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. —Clive Bell More about this quote Tags: religion escape art ecstasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The temple of art is built in words. —Josiah Gilbert Holland More about this quote Tags: words art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email