This is a start to a collection of favourite art quotations;
“All works of art though visible represent invisible things,” (by or about Bill Viola)
Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
~ Magdalena Abakanowicz“The atmosphere of our early years – the blend of impressions, sensations and fantasies we absorb – leave an indelible imprint on every one of us.”
Isabella Far
This is one sense of poetry. A little concoction of words against death. It’s almost the instinct against death crystallized.
~ Miroslav Holub
“For me, a relationship without an artistic connection is like sex without chemistry: dull, flat and mechanical. And sex without chemistry is like bad art: forced strokes that inspire nothing but rolling eyes. Creative
people are creative in every context, and sex is no exception. ”
-Stephanie Sellars (article)“The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” – Piet Mondrian
“I never believed in god, but I believe in Picasso.” – Diego Rivera
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.” – M. C. Escher
“The drawings have to do with releasing energy. Somebody once said that people become artists because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.”
– Dale Chihuly
Thus in all poetry a word is like a sun, with its corona and chromosphere; words crowd upon words and enwrap each other in their luminous envelopes until sentences become clear, continuous light bands.
-Ernest Fenollosa-
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world
~Oscar Wilde
Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that is used to be the privilege of the gods.
– Ted Hughes
Stylistically, an artist can do two very brave things in their careers: a Picasso-like switching between unrecognizable styles, or a Morandi-like pursuit of the same relentless vision (the challenge here is to maintain a
pitch of intensity across a long line of similar works).
-Kara BesherMorandi
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde ..
“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”
Margot Fonteyn“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. … I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
-Frederick Chopin
“Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.”
“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. “
– Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing.
“When the artists is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes and inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets,
enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book , he opens it and shows that there are still more pages possible.”
-Robert Henri, The Art Spirit (1923)
My cane, my pocket change, this ring of keys,
The obedient lock, the belated notes
The few days left to me will not find time
To read, the deck of cards, the tabletop,
A book and crushed in its pages the withered
Violet, monument to an afternoon
Undoubtedly unforgettable, now forgotten,
The mirror in the west where a red sunrise
Blazes its illusion. How many things,
Files, dorsills, atlases, wine glasses, nails,
Serve us like slaves who never say a word,
Blind and so mysteriously reserved.
They will endure beyond our vanishing;
And they will never know that we have gone.–Borges
Art is a revolt against fate.
– André Malraux
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