Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A painting that is well composed is half finished. "
Pierre Bonnard
Art
Half
Well
Related Quotes:
" Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. "
Thomas Hardy
Art
Emotion
Poetry
" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "
Ansel Adams
Photograph
You
Make
" Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty
Creation
Love
" All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.' "
Gloria Estefan
Rest
Love
Life
" The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. "
Alma Gluck
Song
Art
Break
" Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside. "
Valentino Rossi
Art
Bike
Feel
" Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. "
Kiki Smith
Live
Give
Unknown
" Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. "
Roy Lichtenstein
Look
Art
World
" I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. "
Erykah Badu
Art
Think
Respect
" It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
Creative
Focus
Problems
" In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. "
Georg Cantor
Art
Question
Than
" Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. "
Henri Matisse
Art
Work
Values
" Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. "
Harry S Truman
Parasitic
Art
Criticism
" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "
Abraham Lincoln
Art
Always
Greatest
" Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. "
Alfred North Whitehead
Experience
Art
Aesthetic
" For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. "
Edvard Munch
Deep
Long
Remember
" Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. "
Steve Aoki
Love
Passion
Art
" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Mind
Ordinary
You
" All art is but imitation of nature. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nature
Imitation
Art
" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "
Jean Cocteau
Ugly
Time
Beautiful
" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "
Robert Quillen
Art
Worth
Own
" Painting is by nature a luminous language. "
Robert Delaunay
Art
Nature
Language
" All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. "
Federico Fellini
Autobiography
Pearl
Oyster
" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "
Ansel Adams
Art
Nothing
Sharp
" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "
Agnes Martin
Seen
Mind
About
" People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage. "
Seth Rollins
People
End
Art
" Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. "
Ellen Datlow
Focus
Hair
Art
" Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. "
Constantin Stanislavski
Love
Art
Yourself
" To me, snowboarding is really an art form, and I think every athlete, every snowboarder has her own style, and that makes them stand out. "
Chloe Kim
Style
Art
Athlete
" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "
Don Marquis
Procrastination
Yesterday
Art