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Favorite Art Quotes:

i'm going to start, please join in, and don't be bashful, quote yourself if it is a thought you live/work by. It can be about an art form an artist or art in general~~if it struck your funny bone or touched your heart, please share.

"Art when realy understood is the province of every human being.
It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing."
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, 1923

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
Winnie the Pooh
(i suspect that's true of visual arts too: concepts sieze us rather than the other way round.)
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"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
Dolly Parton
feywon's profile

21 days ago
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle
Sylk's profile

17 days ago
Love these quotes . . . in particular, the one from Robert Henri. It exactly expresses my thoughts/feelings about art . . . that "art" can be so much more than an occasional, momentary means of expression; it can be a way of life that permeates all we do.
MsTick1's profile

11 days ago
My hope is that members will add one's they've always liked (you know those one you tack to bulletin boards of put under a magnet on the fridge?)
feywon's profile

11 days ago
"Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance." Margaret Mead
feywon's profile

5 days ago