~ Art and the Artist Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text](Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Lawren Harris

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.

Pablo Picasso

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.

Charles Burchfield

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky from the earth from a scrap of paper from a passing shape.

Pablo Picasso

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A true artist will let his wife starve his children go barefoot his mother drudge for his living at seventy sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.

Robert Motherwell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Eric Hoffer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

Paul Cezanne

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he— for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said 'It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.'

Michelangelo