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"978 Art Quotes

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
Art By-product Honest Successful
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People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

People Old Feel True
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I Want Something Special
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Every Experience Food Greedy
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
Conceive Work Art Existence
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Treat Work Art A prince
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Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Great work Art Declare pompously A celebration
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Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine.

Man Laws God Time
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Man, there's no boundary line to art!

No boundary line To art
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Painting does what we cannot do,it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Painting does Cannot do It brings Dimensional world
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Each character Represented A trait That resides
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great.

Art history Is taught Tells you The painting
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Ease The enemy The artist Things get
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Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit

Art Joy Virtues Act
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The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Great thing Art Learn Doing it
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Art The mirror Betrayed ideas
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Art Is dangerous The attractions It ceases
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There is no art when one does something without intention.

No art Does something Without intention
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Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
Painting Intermediate Thought Thing
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Trying to force creativity is never good.

Force Creativity Never Good
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There might come a time when you feel lonely. That is when your creativity will be like your best friend.

Time Lonely Creativity Best friend
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Art is more important than the artist – have no attachment to your own art. It is regressive, move on.

Art Important Regressive Move on
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I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

Admire Artists Different approach Shows
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We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort.

Creative Odds World Comfort
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I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

Thought Desires Art Emotional
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Art Construct Refrain Destruction
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Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.

Art Bring us Consolation Individuals
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Art Attempt Order Chaos
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Work What Art Yourself
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Artists work best alone. Work alone.

Artist Work Best Alone
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Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship, and understanding through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.”

Goal World Visual art Life
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

Artist Train Eye Soul
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There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

Road Analysis Graphic Expression
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Colour is a power which directly influences the soul
Colour Power Influences Soul
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There is no must in art because art is free.

Must Art Free
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To create a work of art is to create the world.

Create Work Art World
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The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Artist Mastery Goal Form
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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

Color Power Real Human body
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Color transmits and translates emotion.

Color Transmits Translates Emotion
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The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Form Clear Direct Appeal
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I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

Value Artists Expression Life
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Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

Color Eye Soul Strings
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Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Art Power Improvement Human soul
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Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Work Art Time Emotions
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

I Imagination Make Color
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Reason Artists Self-esteem Issues
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The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Art Acting What You
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

I Artist Color Sex
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Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Art Life Subjective Everybody
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Art is long, life is short.

Art Long Life Short
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