Arts+Quotations

=Arts Quotations contributed by Susan Waddington=

=[|Susan Waddington] = =School Art Teacher = =Posted on 8/31/2011 = =at Edutopia.org Arts Group = =[|**art quotes**]= =alphabetical by author: = = = = Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. = =- Unknown = = = =Every artist dips their brush in their own soul, and paints their own nature into their pictures. = =- Henry Ward Beecher = = = =Architecture is inhabited sculpture. = =- Constantin Brancusi =

=Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. = =- Paul Cezanne = = = =We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. = =- Sir Winston Churchill = = = =The artist is not a special kind of person, but every person is a special kind of artist. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- A.K. Coomaraswamy = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Salvador Dali = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Edgar Degas = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It's kind of fun to do the impossible. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Walt Disney = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Albert Einstein = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Albert Einstein = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Albert Einstein = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Ralph Waldo Emerson = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Paul Gardner = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I shut my eyes in order to see. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Paul Gauguin =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Goethe = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Andy Goldsworthy = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">No artist is ahead of their time. They are their time. It is just that others are behind the time. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Martha Graham = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Henry S. Haskins = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Thomas Wentworth Higginson = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Life is short, art is long... = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Hippocrates = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A teacher affects eternity; They can never tell where their influence stops. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Hans Hofmann =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Oliver Wendell Holmes = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Art is not a thing; it is a way. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Elbert Hubbard = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- John F. Kennedy = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A line is a dot that went for a walk. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Paul Klee = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Creativity takes courage. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Henri Matisse = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Thomas Merton =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Henry Mitchell = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The arts are the signature of a nation. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Joan Mondale = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Louise Nevelson = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Georgia O'Keeffe = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Carl Perkins = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Pablo Picasso = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Pablo Picasso =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The artist's job is to be a witness to their time in history. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Robert Rauschenberg = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Sir Joshua Reynolds = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- John Ruskin = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> - Carl Sagan = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Art is the signature of civilizations. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Beverly Sills = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Form ever follows function. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Louis H. Sullivan = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The road to success is always under construction. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Lily Tomlin =

=<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Mark Twain = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Vincent Van Gogh = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Rembrandt = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Robin Williams = = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- Emile Zola =