I'm going to keep adding to this post with quotes I want to share with you. Which ones do you like? I have a whole book of quotes I've collected but they're packed up in NZ somewhere...
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
- Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. Amy Lowell
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde
- Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp
- Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller
- Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
- Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
- Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim
- Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Anish Kapoor
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Gustave Flaubert
- Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. Jean Rostand By the work one knows the workman. Jean de La Fontaine
- Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
- Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Tom Wolfe
- Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse
- Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
- Even a true artist does not always produce art. Carroll O'Connor
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher
The Earth's waters are both boundaries and pathways for peoples, objects and ideas.
Fumio Nanjo
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