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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

over 2 years ago
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle
Sylk's profile

over 2 years 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

over 2 years 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

over 2 years 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

over 2 years ago
"We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters." ~ Susan Sontag ~
Sylk's profile

about 1 year ago
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
feywon's profile

about 1 year ago
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
feywon's profile

about 1 year ago
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. John Steinbeck
RachelAnn1's profile

about 1 year ago
Oh I love quotes. Glad you have a sticky thread for this. Some really nice ones here.

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." ~ Aristotle

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Francis Bacon
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about 1 year ago
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