Best water & art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.”

Art Light Artist Water Generations Dog Objects Materials Thousand Paint Smoke Chairs Electric Sock Neon Neon Lights

Author:Allan Kaprow

“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.”

Art Turns Water Tears Sweet Fairs Crosses Wine Reign Strife Wrath Foe Back Again End Of Life

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.”

Ifs Heart Art Water Walks Air Conquer Self Mastery Straws

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.”

Art Sports Water Loses Drinking Drunkenness

Author:Michael Moriarty

“There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?”

Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well

“Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.”

Knows World Giving Art Real Artist Water Natural Air This World Giving Up Art Is Vocation Natural Things Air And Water Real Artists Monastic Life

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.”

Giving Looks Littles Art Home Water Silence Color Wall Pleasant Comment Snob Undressing Your Wall

Book:Confessions of a dilettante

Source: Confessions of a dilettante

“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.”

Kind Art Kids Father Felt Easy Water Class Color Draws Drawing Painter Hated Sunday Assignments Art Class

Author:Wade Guyton

“Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!”

Art Women Sides Water Feet Sweet Rivers Wide Wet Alas

Book:Imogen: And Other Poems

Source: Imogen: And Other Poems

“From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.”

Art Said Whole Names Water Born Lines Chance Poor Boys Sea Dying Fields Rivers Lays Lips Caught Fishes Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Swim Shore Estates Hook Inheritance Prey My Boys Pastures Oxen

Author:Ovid

“A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“Surfing is very special and unique. It's really hard to explain unless you've tried it. It's being out in the ocean in the sun, the water on your skin, and the adrenalin rush when you catch a wave. You have to be creative so it's like an art form in a way.”

Way Art Hard Form Water Sun Creative Special Ocean Unique Skins Wave Be Creative Surfing

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.”

Art Able Moving Speak Stars Water Walks Angel Forgotten

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.”

Art Stills Soul America Speak Water Travel Sitting Tongue Kingdoms Painter Dust Ruins Recalls Sculpture Pilgrim Shrines Sandals

Book:Sacred Poems

Source: Sacred Poems

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.”

Art Reading Water Entertainment Dirty Bathing Proust Dirty Water

Author:Alexander Woollcott

“It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.”

Needs Art Soul Turns Water Fire Wine Sticks Sweetness Artwork Transubstantiation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”

Source: Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.”

Thinking Way Art Facts Water Rights Movement Proud Summer Mark Civil Rights March Civil Rights Movement

Author:Charlton Heston

“Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.”

Men Art Water Like You Drink Thirsty Without God Reggae Drink Water

Author:Bob Marley

“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”

Thinking Needs Feels Art Running Grows Water Media Ten Skills Perception Messages Mass Opposites Seconds Hook Make You Think Iconic Mass Media Sensational Vases Doggedness

Author:Robert Hughes

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