Add an ART Quote

[fairypiggles]

I thought it would be nice to share some of our favorite Art Quotes. I have so many..but I thought these 2 everyone might appreciate. :) Harriet Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation. A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. both by Paul Cezanne

[nechtan999_1]

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression: Isaac Bashevis Singer

[nechtan999_1]

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun: Pablo Picasso

[dartnkatz]

I love Picasso quotes. Here's one from James MacNeill Whistler. "An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision"

[fairypiggles]

Oh...you guys are coming up with a few I have not read before. How fun. A truthful statement! :) A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

[nechtan999_1]

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time: Orson Welles

[nechtan999_1]

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament: Oscar Wilde

[nechtan999_1]

I love this one One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche

[fairypiggles]

Art puts little on my plate...but more then fills my soul...leaving no room for complaint. As you can see I just made that up! lol :)

[fairypiggles]

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche WOW....dreamy and profound!

[epiphanytlwest]

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. Leonardo da Vinci My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent. Marc Chagall :) The last one makes me smile!

[october*moon]

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher And of course..."Even the smallest feline is a masterpiece" - Leonardo DaVinci Anne >^..^<

[nechtan999_1]

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly: Franz Kafka

[nechtan999_1]

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above: Cyril Connolly

[nechtan999_1]

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite: Paul Gauguin

[melindadalke]

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. Georgia O'Keeffe