Friday, April 24, 2009

Quotes on Art...


Art Quotes

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the
world has known."
- Oscar Wilde
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"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than
the heart can inspire."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the
same time."
- Thomas Merton
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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
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"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
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"All art requires courage."
- Anne Tucker
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"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the
world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else."
- Michael Vitale
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks
as a painting in a museum."

- Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

- Oscar Wilde
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"There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living
so there's no end to it."

- Henry Moore
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"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

- Jackson Pollock


2 comments:

  1. It's going to be a beautiful weekend here in PA. Enjoy!!

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  2. Val- I don't get a one of those art quotes. I am the biggest failure at art ever!

    Merrykins

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