Art Quotes
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
Hector Tobar
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I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.
Tim Fish
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up these barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
William Wordsworth
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You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
Chuck Close
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
William Shakespeare
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My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
Martha Beck
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The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
Allan Kaprow
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Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Art is a language, therefore, a social function.
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Jerry Saltz
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The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.
Catherine Ingram
