More Art Quotations And Sayings

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“One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art”
– Oscar Wilde

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
– Hannah Harrington

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
– Martha Graham

“Imagination rules the world”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
– Stella Adler

“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
– Coco Chanel

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
– Walt Whitman

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
– frederick Delius

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
– Toni Morrison

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple…”
– J.K. Rowling

“How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.
– Jarod Kintz

“The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it.
– Jarod Kintz

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
– Danny Kaye

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
– Aristotle

“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
– Albert Camus

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
– John Irving

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t squeak.”
– Tom Robbins

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”
– Banksy

“An idea is salvation by imagination”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others”
– Martha Graham

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
– Ansel Adams

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
– Confucious

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
– james Baldwin

“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”
– Billy Joel

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
– Michelangelo

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