unknown Art Quotes - (110 quotes)

unknown - From the Activity category:

When you are what you do, then when you don't you're not. (unknown)

unknown - From the Affirmation category:

Affirm it, visualize it, and it will actualize itself. (unknown)

unknown - From the Appreciation category:

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (unknown)

unknown - From the Appreciation category:

Expect nothing, appreciate everything. (unknown)

unknown - From the Architecture category:

Minimalism in conception demands maximalism in execution. (unknown)

unknown - From the Artists category:

Artists are the froth on the waves of civilization. (unknown)

unknown - From the Artists category:

Since the earliest times – from the cave artists to the modern painters – artists have enriched the plastic vocabulary and each generation of man has seen through the eyes of the artists of the preceding generation. (unknown)

unknown - From the Authority category:

Question authority. Says who? (unknown)

unknown - From the Beginning category:

We will be judged by what we finish, not by what we start! (unknown)

unknown - From the Burning category:

A fire in the belly doesn't light itself. (unknown)

unknown - From the Change category:

What we are never changes, but who we are is always changing. (unknown)

unknown - From the Clubs category:

What is a committee? – a group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. (unknown)

unknown - From the Communication category:

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. (unknown)

unknown - From the Complaining category:

What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us. (unknown)

unknown - From the Confidence category:

If you think you're outclassed, you are; / You've got to think high to rise. / You've got to be sure of yourself / before you can win the prize. (unknown)

unknown - From the Construction category:

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. (unknown)

unknown - From the Construction category:

The road to success is always under construction. (unknown)

unknown - From the Criticism category:

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (unknown)

unknown - From the Critics category:

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. (unknown)

unknown - From the Critics category:

Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those doing it. (unknown)

unknown - From the Dealers category:

-museum director...
If you understand something, you won't be able to help but like it. That doesn't mean you want to live with it though. (unknown)

unknown - From the Depression category:

No rain. No rainbows. (unknown)

unknown - From the Drawing category:

Do not mourn the loss of lead from a pencil; / Rather, rejoice in the mark it has made. (unknown)

unknown - From the Drawing category:

Draw every day for at least half an hour. If you don't feel like it then draw until you do. (unknown)

unknown - From the Drawing category:

We all have at least 100,000 bad drawings inside of us. The sooner we get them out and onto paper, the sooner we'll get to the good ones buried deep within. (unknown)

unknown - From the Dreams category:

If it can be well enough dreamed; it can be easily enough done. (unknown)

unknown - From the Dreams category:

Old dreams chase away new ones. (unknown)

unknown - From the Dreams category:

When legends die, there are no more dreams. When there are no more dreams, there is no more greatness. (unknown)

unknown - From the Earth category:

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. (unknown)

unknown - From the Eccentricity category:

Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. (unknown)

unknown - From the Enthusiasm category:

Enthusiasm: translated from Greek it means "the God within you." (unknown)

unknown - From the Evolution category:

Evolution of the art reflects the evolution of the person. After dramatic developments in the artist's life, the art will reflect the changes. (unknown)

unknown - From the Experience category:

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. (unknown)

unknown - From the Expression category:

A painter shows you what he painted, but an artist shows you why he painted. (unknown)

unknown - From the Fashion category:

The fashion industry is running around trying to find that one unique idea, but it's afraid of experiencing it. (unknown)

unknown - From the Friendship category:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. (unknown)

unknown - From the Friendship category:

Friends are God's way of taking care of us. (unknown)

unknown - From the Friendship category:

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. (unknown)

unknown - From the Friendship category:

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. (unknown)

unknown - From the Generosity category:

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave the most in life – happiness, freedom and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else. (unknown)

unknown - From the Goals category:

A goal is a dream with a deadine. (unknown)

unknown - From the Goodness category:

A small good deed is better then the grandest intention. (unknown)

unknown - From the Gratitude category:

I give thanks for this perfect day / Miracle will follow miracle, and wonders will never cease. (unknown)

unknown - From the Growth category:

Be both the gardener and the rose. (unknown)

unknown - From the Health category:

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good... spit it out. (unknown)

unknown - From the Humour category:

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same. (unknown)

unknown - From the Imagination category:

In one's own mind there are millions upon millions of streams and rivers to paint. (unknown)

unknown - From the Imagination category:

Imagination is the cinema of coming events. (unknown)

unknown - From the Imitation category:

You can borrow all the flour you want but you have to bake your own bread. (unknown)

unknown - From the Importance category:

The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously... they outlive governments and creeds and societies, even the very civilizations that produced them. (unknown)

unknown - From the Impossibilities category:

You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd. (unknown)

unknown - From the Insecurity category:

True security lies in not what you have but in what you can do without. (unknown)

unknown - From the Inspiration category:

Inspiration comes in many forms. Often it's most powerful when it catches you by surprise. (unknown)

unknown - From the Joy category:

You can't take joy home in your pockets... (unknown)

unknown - From the Knowledge category:

You don't know what you don't know. What we know about any thing, thought, discipline, condition or process is finite. What we don't know is infinite. (unknown)

unknown - From the Life category:

The secret of life is in art, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. (unknown)

unknown - From the Light category:

There was never a night that could defeat sunrise. (unknown)

unknown - From the Light category:

I have loved the stars too dearly to be critical of the night. (unknown)

unknown - From the Love category:

How does love come? / It comes unsought – unsent. / How does love go? / It was not love that went. (unknown)

unknown - From the Meaning category:

A painting contains any number of meanings, including the correct one. (unknown)

unknown - From the Memory category:

Did you know that everybody has a photographic memory? Some of us just don't have any film in there! (unknown)

unknown - From the Modernism category:

Modern art, whether in painting or poetry or music, began as a probe and not as a package. (unknown)

unknown - From the Modernism category:

-defender of modern art...
It could be that there's really something deeply important hidden beyond our ability to interpret it. (unknown)

unknown - From the Music category:

A harp is a nude piano. (unknown)

unknown - From the Observation category:

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses. (unknown)

unknown - From the Opportunity category:

When the day opens to your heart, are you going to watch it, or enter it? (unknown)

unknown - From the Optimism category:

If you think you'll lose, you're lost / For out in the world we find / Success begins with a fellow's will; / It's all in the state of mind! (unknown)

unknown - From the Optimism category:

Assume an attitude of positive expectancy! (unknown)

unknown - From the Optimism category:

A pessimist is an optimist with experience. (unknown)

unknown - From the Optimism category:

Always borrow money from a pessimist. They don't expect to be paid back. (unknown)

unknown - From the Optimism category:

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. (unknown)

unknown - From the Peace category:

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. (unknown)

unknown - From the Perfection category:

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. (unknown)

unknown - From the Perfection category:

-on stone tablet in Mexico...
Grace without perfection is more preferred than perfection without grace. (unknown)

unknown - From the Photography category:

If you paint from photographs, the soul of your art will be stolen. (unknown)

unknown - From the Potential category:

Each day is like a work of Art yet to be designed, an Empty Canvas waiting for the Dreams in your mind. Your talents and strengths are like the colors you can use to paint your life anyway you choose, because there is only one you. (unknown)

unknown - From the Prayer category:

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. (unknown)

unknown - From the Prayer category:

Goddess, make me the person my dog thinks I am. (unknown)

unknown - From the Prayer category:

Lord, please keep one hand on my shoulder and one over my mouth! (unknown)

unknown - From the Problems category:

The three main problems that get art rejected all the time are overworking, overworking, and overworking. This overworking is often due to too much thinking. (unknown)

unknown - From the Procrastination category:

Being a procrastinator is interesting. You never know what you're going to not do next. (unknown)

unknown - From the Procrastination category:

Do it now. Then it's done. (unknown)

unknown - From the Profession category:

The difference between a professional and an amateur is: A professional borrows from a master and an amateur borrows from an apprentice. (unknown)

unknown - From the Purpose category:

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. (unknown)

unknown - From the Purpose category:

The purpose of art is to open a door to other dimensions. (unknown)

unknown - From the Purpose category:

We don't dance to get to the end of the dance; we don't sing to get to the end of the song. (unknown)

unknown - From the Questions category:

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled, the humiliating question arises, 'Why then are you not taking part in them?' (unknown)

unknown - From the Questions category:

-from The Creative Spirit...
The word question is derived from the Latin quaerere (to seek), which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides. (unknown)

unknown - From the Questions category:

If the universe is infinite potential awaiting acceptance, what will we accept this day? (unknown)

unknown - From the Reality category:

There is no reality in the absence of observation. (unknown)

unknown - From the Religion category:

-Native American...
I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. (unknown)

unknown - From the Revelation category:

Events don't make the man, they reveal him. (unknown)

unknown - From the Satisfaction category:

Better is the enemy of Good. (unknown)

unknown - From the Sculpture category:

A bystander asked an equestrian sculptor how he did it. The sculptor replied: "I just chip away everything that doesn't look like a horse." (unknown)

unknown - From the Serendipity category:

Serendipity is God's way of remaining anonymous. (unknown)

unknown - From the Silence category:

Within you lies the simple silence. Be quiet and listen... (unknown)

unknown - From the Strength category:

The greatest strength is gentleness. (unknown)

unknown - From the Studio category:

I'm downsizing my studio and outsourcing my painting. (unknown)

unknown - From the Success category:

The secret to a successful life is to have to be somewhere Monday morning. (unknown)

unknown - From the Success category:

The road to success runs through the desert of failure. (unknown)

unknown - From the Success category:

When you become successful, it becomes a job. (unknown)

unknown - From the Taste category:

Fine art doesn't have to match your sofa. (unknown)

unknown - From the Thinking category:

Life's battles don't always go / To the strongest or fastest man; / But sooner or later the man who wins / Is the man who thinks he can! (unknown)

unknown - From the Time category:

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. (unknown)

unknown - From the Timeliness category:

-The Cowboy's Rules of Life...
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain-dance. (unknown)

unknown - From the Understanding category:

The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist. (unknown)

unknown - From the Universe category:

That which is most personal is universal. (unknown)

unknown - From the Values category:

Value does all the work and color gets all the glory. (unknown)

unknown - From the Winning category:

If you think you are beaten, you are; / If you think you dare not, you don't! / If you'd like to win, but think you can't, / It's almost a cinch that you won't. (unknown)

unknown - From the Worry category:

Worry is a think-stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. (unknown)