Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. —Charles Eames More about this quote Tags: doing quality art magic process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. —Hans Hofmann More about this quote Tags: art personality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My trade and art is to live. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: living art trade Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. —Jerzy Kosiński More about this quote Tags: art principles evokation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. —Theodor W. Adorno More about this quote Tags: art crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. —Michelangelo More about this quote Tags: art thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: art summer winter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: art unnecessary elimination minimalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: knowledge enjoyment art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. —Rebecca West More about this quote Tags: art argument conversation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends. —James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism More about this quote Tags: art thought work creativity originality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't paint to live, I live to paint. —Willem de Kooning More about this quote Tags: life art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All nature is but art unknown to thee. —Alexander Pope More about this quote Tags: art nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. —Robert Delaunay More about this quote Tags: art nature constraint Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email