April 7, 2023: About Art and Artists
Feeling creative? Find inspiration in these quotes about art and artists.
“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” —Oscar Wilde
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” —Pablo Picasso
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” —Robert Schumann
“I believe great art is discovered when you are consistent, a hard worker, and combine that with vision – your gift finds its home at some point.” —Beyonce
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.” —Vincent Van Gogh
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” —Marcel Proust
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.” —Hendrik Willem van Loon
“The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I have always thought and felt that my art might also help others understand their search for sanity.” —Edvard Munch
“People who are pushed toward the arts are sometimes flying a little too close to the sun.” —Michael Stipe
“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.” —Plutarch
“A vandal is somebody who throws a brick through a window. An artist is somebody who paints a picture on that window. A great artist is somebody who paints a picture on the window and then throws a brick through it.” —A-One
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.” —Pablo Picasso
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.” —Jean Cocteau
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.” —Georgia O’Keeffe
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” —George Bernard Shaw
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” —Emile Zola
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