Famous Quotes about art

“ Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ”

Laurence J. Peter

“ Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“ You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization ”

Denis Waitley

“ Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. ”

Denis Waitley

“ I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky. ”

Katharine Hepburn

“ At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ”

Salvador Dali

“ Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ”

Salvador Dali

“ Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery. ”

Gabrielle Roth

“ I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. ”

Tahar Ben Jelloun

“ I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. ”

Frida Kahlo

“ Art is not a thing; it is a way. ”

Elbert Hubbard

“ I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. ”

Salvador Dali

“ We must use time creatively. ”

Martin Luther King

“ All art is an imitation of nature. ”

Seneca

“ Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. ”

Salvador Dali

“ Art is like reading a good book, only you decide how it is going to end. ”

J.Kleykamp

“ Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real. ”

Amy Grant

“ Be sure your pen of actions is drawing a work of art ”

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“ Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way ”

American Proverb

“ As we mature spiritually there is less need to have our self-respect bolstered by praise and special attention. As our thought processes become more compassionate and less self obsessed, we feel increasingly satisfied with ourselves and our lives. We relate to people more easily and feel no need to draw attention to our successes or complain about our problems. ”

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“ What is art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. ”

Tagore

“ Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ”

Eugene Delacroix

“ Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. ”

Henry David Thoreau

“ Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. ”

Salvador Dali

“ Every creative act involves a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. ”

Arthur Koestler

“ The art is not in making money, but in keeping it ”

Dutch Proverbs

“ Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It is a power in its own right. The artist starts with a blank canvas - silence. The composer places it between and behind the notes. The very ground of your being, out of which comes all your thoughts, is silence. The way to silence is through meditation. When you arrive in your own silence you will know true freedom and real power. Stop, take a minute, and listen to the silence within you today. Then be aware of what disturbs your inner silence. It could be negative thoughts, memories, sensations. And when you are aware, you will know what is draining your creative power, and you will know what needs to change...on the inside!. ”

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“ A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things. ”

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“ Listening is one of the basic secrets of entering into the temple of God. Listening means passivity. Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen. When you listen attentively to somebody, you forget yourself. If you cannot forget yourself, you never listen. If you are too self-conscious about yourself, you simply pretend that you are listening - you dont listen. You may nod your head; you may sometimes say yes and no, but you are not listening. When you listen, you become just a passage, a passivity, a receptivity, a womb: you become feminine. And to arrive one has to become feminine. You cannot reach God as aggressive invaders, conquerors. You can reach God only...or it will be better to say God can reach you only when you are receptive, a feminine receptivity. When you become yin, a receptivity, the door is open - and you wait. Listening is the art for becoming passive. ”

Osho

“ All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised. ”

Osho

“ A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. ”

Van Gogh

“ To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ”

Joseph Chilton Pearce

“ The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them. ”

Henry Miller

“ There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ”

Pablo Picasso

“ Everything that comes to us, comes to pass or, more accurately, for us to pass on. Not just the money in our pocket, but wisdom, objects, ideas, even opportunities, all come to us, so that, at the right moment, we can pass them on. This is called flow. Being in the flow means being aware that the river of life is flowing to us at every moment. Being in the flow means accepting whatever comes and putting it to good use, before passing it on. Going with the flow means allowing whatever comes to move on freely, without holding on in any way. If we do not pass on, we are trying to block the flow, and that's when we feel pressure in our life. Pressure is always self-inflicted. Every time you feel 'under pressure' look at what you need to release and to pass on to someone else. Once you do you can ...relax...again. ”

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