Art Quotes
Art evokes the mystery without which
the world would not exist..
- Rene' Magritte
To be an artist is to believe in life.the world would not exist..
- Rene' Magritte
- Henry S. Moore
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
-Alice Neel
You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
I shut my eyes in order to see
- Paul Gauguin
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and
makes you worry about gravity.
-Damien Hirst
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-Michelangelo
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
-Henry Moore
Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.
-Jasper Johns
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
- Roy Adzak
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
- Claude Monet
A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
-Pablo Picasso
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
- Stella Adler
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Charles Baudelaire
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