A Quotes
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“Art is its own thing, and so is craft — and creativity is common to both, in the same way as its absence. Without it, the craftsman is nothing, but just that: a craftsman; and not creative; and an artist without that creative spark is no poet: he is just someone who writes things.”
Source: The Same Old Story
“Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.”
Source: John Marin
“Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.”
“Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.”
“Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.”
“Art is legacy, it is solace. It soothes, consoles, arouses. It’s work. It’s what you do all day. It’s how you work things out, how you understand the world. It’s the opportunity to start over, to shed your skin, to take revenge, to fall in love. To be good. To live long.”
Source: The Blue Hour
“Art is lies that tell the truth.”
“Art is life. Art saves humanity.”
“Art is life. Design is emotion. Craft is the expression of humanity.”
“Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty--
his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization,
and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature.
To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.”
“Art is life's dream interpretation.”
“Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?”
“Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.”
“Art is life, plus caprice.”
“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”
“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”
“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”
“Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.”
“Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.”
“Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.”
“Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion. I wish there was much less happening. I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.”
“Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.”
“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.”
“Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.”
“Art is like ham-it nourishes people.”
“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
“Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.”
“Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.”
“Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.”
Source: Milton Avery drawings
“Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“Art is literacy of the heart”
“Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.”
“Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.”
Source: The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”
Source: Voices of the Night
“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”
Source: Voices of the Night
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite the plethora of written books and e-books covering virtually every imaginable subject, advances in human knowledge and changes in the physical environment will cause recurrent alterations in the human condition that writers are uniquely able to express, explain, explicate, and elucidate. The complexities of human life demand humanistic persons to explore and offer guidance and solace to troubled souls. The world is not in the need of any more corporate entities devoted to milling money. What the world needs is writers, singers, poets, and philosophers whom can expand upon the universal desire to display an intense and absorbing respect for life and honor the principles of truthfulness and charity in human relations. I wish for every person to cull the lyrical prose from their stroll in the meadow of life and express the vivacity of their inner daemon in whatever artistic methodology stirs their imagination and voices their uniqueness. I call upon each person to use logic, intuition, and imagination to share all their adventures in this world of rocks and stones, earth and sky, sunshine and rain. Splash it out there for everyone to witness your appreciativeness of nature’s glory, verification of your meaningful existence demands that you settle for nothing less.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
“Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.”
Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.”
“Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.”
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels
“Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”
“Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.”
“Art is love and it covers. It sheilds.”
“Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.”
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.”
“Art is made by the alone for the alone.”