Favorite Art Quotes That Inspire. Got Any? Please Share!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/nietzche-art-quote-viva-anderson.html

“We have Art so that we will not die of Reality” Nietzsche

Love it VIVA!

Thank you for starting us off!

To all..... Sorry for the two similar threads Perhaps Abbie or David can get rid of the first one, ( that I closed)? Thanks.

-‘Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.' ["...He believed that the artist’s ability to transcend reality and to create the sublime is what makes him great."]- Oscar Wilde

– Giorgio de Chirico, "What shall I love if not the enigma?"

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” - Marc Chagall

Some painters transform the Sun into a yellow spot. Others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso.

Wonderful thread Bill!

“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” Auguste Rodin

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mountain-high-going-to-the-sun-glacier-national-park-viewpoint-lori-pittenger.html

Is it too egotistical to share my own words!?

Art is the visual expression of things in our human experience that words cannot express.

"In the mind of every artist, there is a masterpiece!" - KAI GREEN

Some really great quotes/thoughts on art everyone.Just what I was hoping for!

Thanks everyone. And keep them coming, please!

"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst" - Henri Cartier-Bresson

@Dale ...."Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst" - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Good one. I once read a similar quote that said (paraphrasing), "Your first 10,0000(fill in the blank) are just practice." :-)

"You don't have to make art pretty, but you damn well better make it interesting!" ~ Brian Wallace




“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ...
~ Ansel Adams

O.K.. Here’s one of those quotes I remember but not who said it…..

“A painting is great not because it looks like something, but rather because it feels like something.” Unknown

"Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it."

Jasper Johns

“It took me four years to paint like Rafael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

Pablo Picasso

"I paint flowers so they will not die" Frida Kahlo

more of mine are here

https://ourartsmagazine.com/artofshellifitzpatrick/2022/04/10/the-definition-of-art/

"AI is a bridge between art and science."
Pamela McCorduck

"You don't take a photograph, you make it" - Ansel Adams

“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.” - Percy W. Harris

Anything worth creating is worth creating half-assed.

"To love a painting is to feel that its presence is...not an object but a voice."
-- André Malraux


"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
- Heraclitus

“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.”
— E. M. Forster


“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci.

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole World blind" Mahatma Gandhi.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/an-eye-for-an-eye-john-hughes.html

'The passion for painting was innate in me. This passion has never failed, perhaps because it has always increased with time; even today, I experience all its charm, and I hope that this divine passion ends only with my life.' - Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

'The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche,
that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.'
-Sir Herbert Reade

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. – Jerzy Kosinski

Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall

Speaking for myself, this saying speaks to the angst the artist may feel when finding his or her technique, style, passion in exploring what to express through the art as well as choice of subject and style.There is room for everything~ someone once said: "Art Speaks through You."

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown: the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. - William Shakespeare [A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM]

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye.
Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work.
And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather
and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits.
His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.
- Paul Klee

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was
brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is
but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art – the colour of love.
- Marc Chagall

'To be an artist is to believe in life.' - Henry Moore

'If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.' - Edward Hopper

Hopper is one of my favorite artists. Thanks for his insight.

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls" - Picasso

'To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…
I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.'
-Elliott Erwitt

'It takes a very long time to become young.'
- Pablo Picasso

@Jim Whalen

As long as we believe that writing
and novels are not art ... !

“Art is an effort to create, besides the real world, a more human world.” Andre Maurois.

'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.'
- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

"Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation."



It's against the forum rules to post who said that. PM me if you really would like to know. (or google it)

@Rudy


Rule #9 No plagiarism: cite all sourced content.

The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
Lucian Freud

Bill

It’s from the scriptures of the Baha’i faith

I love mentioning that, so thanks for reminding me of rule #9

"We don't make mistakes... only happy accidents!"
~Bob Ross

Rudy.
O.k. Now I understand. I was confused because I couldn’t find anything in the rules about not allowing the author to be cited.

Thanks very much for clearing it up for me.

Thank you VIVA ... a 'painter's painter', Lucian expresses so much in a stroke of paint and nuances of color ...

'Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.'
- Lucian Freud

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.– Edgar Degas

Thank you, Terrance, :)). Freud: so wise.

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.
- Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio

Thanks to everyone for your art quotes.

I’ll close this now.