Quotes on Art
Art is when you do something just cockeyed from what is the right way to do it, then it's art.
Will Rogers
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He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Saint Francis
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Steven Pressfield
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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
Steven Pressfield
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Seneca
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An intellectual says simple things in a hard way. An artist says hard things in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut
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So in life, in gaiety, in emotion, in human pleasures and pursuits, and in literature and so on, there is no need to be scientific, there is no reason to be scientific. One must relax and enjoy life.
Richard Feynman
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