Best artist & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.”

Want Feelings Eye Artist Passion Stars Fire Radio Sincere Steel

Author:L.A. Reid

“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Hands Seems Eye Together Artist Stuff Art Is Gestures Totality

Author:Frank Stella

“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”

Mean Eye Artist Order Beauty Inspire Goodness Tradition Ancient Rome Viewers Greece Captured Ancient Greece Greece And Rome

Author:John Walford

“I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!”

Ifs Trying Wells Eye Artist Bits East Shade Ancestor Mixtures Eyelids Anglo Saxon Make Up Artist

Author:Olivia Williams

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.”

Facts Eye Artist Lines Wealth Secret Color Rhythm Tension Contrast Continuity Fusion

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.”

Hands Eye Artist Tools Measuring

Book:The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

“To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.”

Helping Eye Able Artist Inspire Stranger Observation

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”

World Soul Eye Artist Universal Rhythm Impulse His Eyes Sensations Perpetual Submit Communion Day To Day Centre Scrutinize Fortuitous

Book:Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon

“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”

Doe Hands Eye Artist Records Painting Gestures Linear Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Graphs

Author:Roger Fry

“I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.”

Eye Artist Bias Compass Voyages Through My Eyes

Book:Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism

Source: Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism

“Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.”

Way Mind Heart Littles Stills Eye Artist Grows Journey Quiet Simplicity Visuals Heart And Mind Restless Visual Art Erratic Visual Artist

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.”

World War Self Eye Artist Degrees War Of The Worlds Switzerland Absorption Self Absorption Narcissus Zurich

Book:Travesties

Source: Travesties

“Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.”

Eye Artist Easier

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”

Ifs Giving Doe Light Eye Artist Shadow Add Drawing Portraiture Vividness Plasticity

Author:John French Sloan

“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

World Way Art Book Real Ends Eye Artist Numbers Pieces Painting Art Is Edges Determine Determined Boundaries Subtle Real World Frontiers

Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.”

People Kind Ideas Eye Artist Levels Common Understood Instance Horizon Walt Common Things

Author:John Hench

“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.”

“To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.”

Knows Eye Beautiful Form Artist Sound Sky Share Cry Creation Color Fine Shapes Mountain Praise Critics Smell Wide Breathe Snow Tragic Museums Texture Bark Very Beautiful Eyes Wide Open

Author:Jan Phillips

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“An artist should have more than two eyes.”

Should Art Two Eye Artist Should Have

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.”

Knows Needs Art Whole Eye Artist Speak Acting Half Steps Taught Late Height Charm Summit Always Wrong

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”

Men Eye Age Artist Animal Habit Civilization Clothes Priests Bankers Dwelling Bourgeois

Author:Honore de Balzac

“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.”

“artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.”

Soul Eye Artist Danger Temptation Paradise Exposed

Book:Innocence and experience: stories

Source: Innocence and experience: stories

“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”

Mean Eye Artist Ability Seeing Being An Artist

Author:Keariene Muizz

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

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