I paint as if I were Rothschild. —Paul Cezanne More about this quote Tags: art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. —Novalis More about this quote Tags: art work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Artists who whine because they need a grant and the government doesn't help them — well, tough shit. I had the same problem. I worked in a bookstore for seven years to make money to buy art supplies. And that was fine. I don't think artists should ever expect anything from anybody. For the artist, sacrifice and hardship are a part of the process. —Patti Smith More about this quote Tags: art government sacrifice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have twenty-one pages, unusable, unprintable, destructive of the book as my mind still partly sees it, contradictory of character and inconsistent in tone. But I am undoubtedly started. —Janet Burroway More about this quote Tags: writing art work beginning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: writing escape art punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: God art animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different nights and bodies. —Mary Catherine Bateson More about this quote Tags: purpose vision art work achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Frederick William was deeply disappointed by his son, the future Frederick the Great, who in his youth seemed more interested in French culture, music, and literature than in the military virtues. The father's disaffection turned to actual hatred, and his treatment became so harsh that the young prince decided to run away, with the aid of two accomplices, Lieutenants Katte and Keith. The plan was discovered; Keith escaped, but the prince and Katte were captured and court-martialed. Katte was sentenced to life imprisonment, Frederick to solitary confinement. Frederick William, deciding that Katte's sentence was too lenient, had him beheaded in the presence of Prince Frederick. This drastic measure had the desired effect; Frederick asked the king's pardon and began to apply himself to acquiring the Prussian military philosophy. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: history music escape art youth culture literature Prussia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. —A. P. Herbert More about this quote Tags: art sausage Picasso Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: education soul art sculpture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. —Jackson Pollock More about this quote Tags: self-discovery discovery identity art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. —Giotto di Bondone More about this quote Tags: art sacred painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. —Steven Pinker More about this quote Tags: art nature human nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stop thinking this is all there is. . . . Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral. . . . Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. . . . Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious . . . there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. —Mark Morford More about this quote Tags: war humanity beauty religion change world art temptation generosity magic resistance environment fatalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humans — despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments — owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: existence accomplishment accomplishment art weather farming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email