In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: imagination vision art seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. —Max Eastman More about this quote Tags: chance art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: humor art weather painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: reality creation art dreaming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: art vitality fury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. —Malcolm de Chazal More about this quote Tags: vision art smiling laughing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: religion art devotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: philosophy art wealth luxury Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art will never be able to exist without nature. —Pierre Bonnard More about this quote Tags: art nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: art sun painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage. —Georgia O'Keeffe More about this quote Tags: art courage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity. —Ashley Montagu More about this quote Tags: humanity art culture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: ideas art thought film movies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: honesty truth difficulty art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a. —John Galliano More about this quote Tags: humility art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email