Art / Music Quotes by GEORGE TOOKER-1428216786

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.



Art / Music Quotes by HENRY WARD BEECHER-1428216488

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.



Art / Music Quotes by ISAK DINESON-1428216200

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.



Art / Music Quotes by JACKSON POLLOCK-1428216129

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.



Art / Music Quotes by JOHN F. KENNEDY-1428216024

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.



Art / Music Quotes by JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE-1428121402

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.



Art / Music Quotes by LOUIS ARMSTRONG-1428121350

Art / Music Quotes by M. C. RICHARDS-1428121249

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.



Art / Music Quotes by M. C. RICHARDS-1428121229

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.



Art / Music Quotes by MICHELE SHEA-1428121203

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.



Art / Music Quotes by ORSON WELLES-1428074253

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



Art / Music Quotes by PABLO PICASSO-1428043601

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.



Art / Music Quotes by PABLO PICASSO-1428043583

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.



Art / Music Quotes by PABLO PICASSO-1428043570

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.



Art / Music Quotes by PAUL GAUGUIN-1428042996

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.



Art / Music Quotes by PAUL GAUGUIN-1428041759

Art / Music Quotes by PIET MONDRIAN-1428040904

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.



Art / Music Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1428040794

Every artist was first an amateur.



Art / Music Quotes by SCOTT ADAMS-1427947233

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.



Art / Music Quotes by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM-1427947204

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.



Art / Music Quotes by WILLIAM-1427947158

Each painting has its own ay of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.



Art / Music Quotes by INSIDE OF A PEPSI CAP-1427947105

2,400,000 Americans play the accordion - hopefully not at the same time.



Art / Music Quotes by AL CAPP-1427946978

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.



Art / Music Quotes by VOLTAIRE-1427946883

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.



Art / Music Quotes by G. K. CHESTERTON-1427946710

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.



Art / Music Quotes by ARTURO TOSCANINI-1427898276

Art / Music Quotes by THE NEW YORKER-1427898023

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.



Art / Music Quotes by EDWARD O. WILSON-1427862442

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.



Art / Music Quotes by EMMA ALBANI-1427862378

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.



Art / Music Quotes by GUSTAV HOLST-1427862298

If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.



Art / Music Quotes by DAWN FRENCH-1427862114

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...



Art / Music Quotes by SAMUEL BUTLER-1427814703

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.



Art / Music Quotes by GROUCHO MARX-1427814616

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.



Art / Music Quotes by FRANK ZAPPA-1427814555

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.



Art / Music Quotes by JULES COMBARIEU-1427814363

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.



Art / Music Quotes by OSCAR WILDE-1427686403

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.



Art / Music Quotes by FRED ROGER-1427686311

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.



Art / Music Quotes by WILL ROGERS-1427686258

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?



Art / Music Quotes by TOM STOPPARD-1427686223

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.



Art / Music Quotes by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE-1427686177

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.



Art / Music Quotes by AARON COPLAND-1427686153

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'