On Art:
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” ~Auguste Rodin
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” ~John W. Gardner
“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” ~Elbert Hubbard
“Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.” ~Terri Guillemets
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness.
Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression
he is making or about to make.” ~Bruce Lee
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” ~Robert Henri
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.” ~Jean-Luc Godard
”When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re
tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your
ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.” ~Keith Haring
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” ~Robert Henri
”Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the
part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t
cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” ~Steven
Pressfield
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” ~Andre Gide
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of
struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our
mind.” ~Magdalena Abakanowicz
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.” ~James McNeil Whistler
“A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.” ~Robert Engman
“The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it) is valuable
is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it. If there were a map,
there’d be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map.”
~Seth Godin
“As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly
incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance” ~Calvin and
Hobbes
“Great art picks up where nature ends.” ~Marc Chagall
“Sex is like art. Most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.” ~Scott Roeben
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.” ~Goethe
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.” ~ Martha Graham
“I will be an artist or nothing!” ~Eugene O’Neill
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.” ~G.K. Chesterton
“The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.” ~Pablo Casals
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ~ Edgar Degas
“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be able to sell it.” ~Samuel Butler
“Art is literacy of the heart” ~Elliot Eisner
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