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Art is I; science is we. (Claude Bernard) Tags: eye

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. (Ingmar Bergman) Tags: art

Art condenses the experience we all have as human beings, and, by forming it, makes it significant. We all have an in-built need for human and...

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some...

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that...

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. (Aristotle)

"I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like," really means "I don't know anything about art, but I like what I know."...

Through the various forms of modern media it seems that art has become a deluge. (Greg Allen)

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. (Roy Adzak)

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation. (Ansel Adams)

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. (Umberto Eco)

Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is...

We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible. (Lewis...

You can't look at abstract art without thinking. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo)

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades...

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you...

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. (T. S. Eliot)

It is fascinating that all kinds of moods can result in really good works... not just during the highs or "on a roll" moods. Surrender to...

Agonies thrilled through me as if my blood were running ice cold in my veins. I stopped composing. My mind became feebler as my feelings grew...

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks...

I live in a world of miracles and people destroy those miracles because they don't understand them. (Abby Schwartz)

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. (Jim Rohn)

Everything is miraculous. It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath. (Pablo Picasso)

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... (Claude Monet)

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. (Abraham Maslow)

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. (Charles A. Lindbergh)

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Helen Keller)

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. (Philip Guston)

What is it when the human being makes the mark on the canvas? It's the miracle. (Jerry Fresia)

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle....

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. (Ray Bradbury)

Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live. (Ann Cashman)

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra)

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. (Ferruccio Busoni)

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. (Van Wyck Brooks) Tags: man, war

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create. (William Blake)

Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor Blair)

Creation is such an elusive thing, for the more we think we are in control, the more we remove ourselves from the actual creation. (Betty Jean...

No other concept challenges the mind as powerfully as spiritual oneness, because oneness is total and has no opposite. (Philippe Benichou)

The search for the spirit... insists on the collaboration of the different basins of knowledge found in the diverse cultures our world has manufactured. (Carlos Rodriguez...

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. (Victor Hugo)

Everyone has dreams, but for too many they are lost along the way to conformity. (Hap Hagood) Tags: way

Everything is but a dream! (Johanna van Gogh)

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Begin it now. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it... (Paul Gauguin)

I dream about the sensation of making a mark, and I very rarely have nightmares. (Martin Fuller)

Figures and objects in modern painting may appear distorted... The special forms, evolved from the relation of color masses, line and composition, to express the painter's...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. (John Ciardi)

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the...

"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for...

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. ::: Cy Twombly :::

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. ::: Euan Uglow :::

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. ::: M.C. Escher :::

Our full range of emotions is our palette with which we bring color to our lives. (Anne Copeland)

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the...

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole. (Pierre Bonnard)

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions...

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. (Robert...

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. (Erich Fromm) Tags: god

The emotional mind creates, and the rational mind explains it. Another way of saying this is, your 'heart' perceives it and your 'head' translates it. (Alvaro...

Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes)

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a...

Modern art was motivated at least in part by an attempt to avoid appropriating and be original. Seemed to work for a while, but look at...

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. (Darby Bannard) Tags: joy

Modern art is supported by the audacious. (Jill Badonsky) Tags: new

Pop art is neither abstract nor realistic, though it has contacts in both directions. The core of pop art is at neither frontier. It is essentially,...

Inspiration comes from doing. (Robert Genn) Tags: art

Inspiration comes from nature itself. I am enamored of nature, and that admiration has only increased as I age. (Benjamin Eisenstat)

Innovation - any new idea - by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be...

To say that a painting is strong is a compliment. Its strength may come from the combination of its colors or subject matter or something subtle...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak....

Abstract art has come into being as a necessary expression of the feelings and thoughts of our age; it has added new dimensions to creative painting....

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. (Andre Breton) Tags: man