Art is communication. – Madeleine L’Engle
Art is communication. – Madeleine L’Engle
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Color is only beautiful when it means something. – Robert Henri
Color is only beautiful when it means something. – Robert Henri
If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally. – George Eliot
If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally. – George Eliot
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. – Henry Miller
Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. – Henry Miller
If it sells, it’s art. – Frank Lloyd Wright
If it sells, it’s art. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. – Robert A. Heinlein
Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. – Robert A. Heinlein
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. – Stephen King
The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited. – Stephen King
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art. – Steve Maraboli
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God’s art. – Steve Maraboli
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world. – Robert Hughes
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world. – Robert Hughes
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. – Robert Henri
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. – Robert Henri