~ Art and the Artist Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

Tacitus

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.

Mike Rider

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Bernard Berenson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

Pablo Picasso

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses another which makes and a third which imitates them.

Plato

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Henri Matisse

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]One ought each day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if possible speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

William Littler

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Eudora Welty

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I don't work according to nature but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature but never confuse it with the art.

Pablo Picasso

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

John W. Gardner

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.

Stanley Kubrick