Art Quotes

Plath

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:00:29 GMT

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-Sylvia Plath

Mark Rothko

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:10:08 GMT

The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.End quote.

— Mark Rothko

On writing

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:29:06 GMT

I´m thinking of seriously getting into writing, and I thought I´d share my thoughts on it.

With the physical manifestation of a thought in characters, symbols and letters comes its death. That is why I am so scared to write something down, for fear that once it leaves my mind and enters paper that it will be gone for good, that I will only be able to appreciate it posthmously in its grave of script. But I want to feel, I want to unravel what´s been building up inside of me for so long, what´s been screaming for a way out of the confines of me, myself and I. I want the pain, the remorse, the sorrow, and the regret to unravel and shine on all to soak and embrace, so they can feel, so I can feel, so we can feel, while I remain the eternal sacrifice.

Lucian Freud, Brett Whiteley

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:45:50 GMT

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb,
seduce, convince.
~ Lucian Freud

Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work
at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
~ Brett Whiteley

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:36:24 GMT

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."
--Thoreau

I apologize if this has been posted before; I just joined.

Happy Birthday Marc Chagall!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:06:11 GMT

"If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste." ~ Marc Chagall

Queen Victoria

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:29:24 GMT

“Beware of artists – they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.”

- Queen Victoria

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:00:14 GMT

"To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession." - Robert Graves

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:59:21 GMT

"What distinguishes the poet or, quite generally, the artist from other human beings, therefore, is not his skill, his mastery, but the intensity of his feeling; and it is this intensity alone which really matters. A work of art produced without feeling, in cold blood, is really a fake; it is dishonest and immoral, for the public is deceived if a poet writes of a love he did not really feel in his heart." - G. H. Gombrich

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:35:28 GMT

"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
-JD Salinger, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:15:53 GMT

"An artist is never poor."
from the film Babette's Feast

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:17:08 GMT

"I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish."
Henri Matisse.

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:51:52 GMT

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

-don Miguel Ruiz

Banksy

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:55:07 GMT

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than
it takes people to look at it.

~ Banksy

Eckhart Tolle

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:10:56 GMT

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."

- Eckhart Tolle

Julia Wertz' the fart party

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:15:07 GMT

Diablo Cody quotes

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:37:08 GMT

Are you surprised by the reaction to your work?
I think people’s reaction to art is more often about themselves than it is about the art. People really project and they find parts of themselves in the things they consume. So its always interesting sometimes the new idea people have on things that I didn’t even intend to put in there. And that’s what's kinda cool.

I guess I would rather fail doing something off the wall, than succeed at something pedestrian. That’s my whole philosophy in life.

But I feel like I have a responsibility to try because there's such a paucity of female directors. There are worse things you can do in life than direct a bad movie.

I always say I'm kind of an emotional scavenger, because everything that I write about is drawn from life, it's drawn from experience that I actually had.

CP: We've all heard the stereotype about Hollywood: the shallowness, the backstabbing—
Cody: It's all true. But one thing that people don't realize is, I have never met people more passionate. Yes, there's a lot of distasteful stuff, but the people who are passionate about their art in Hollywood are more passionate about their art than anyone I've ever met anywhere else. Because people are literally living their dreams, so they are just clinging to that so ferociously, and it's really kind of beautiful and inspiring. People are willing to chuck their entire lives for their work in Hollywood. I've never seen a bank teller do that.

Quote from a game...

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:47:59 GMT

"Creation is the key to inspiration, and with the universal language of art, one can inspire all. For better or for worse, the universe is ours to shape." - - Brian, found in "Developers Grove" in the Nintendo DS game: "Drawn to Life."

"That's Not Art, That's Illustration!"

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:23:05 GMT

"Almost everybody is an artist these days. Rock and Roll singers are artists. So are movie directors, performance artists, make-up artists, tattoo artists, con artists and rap artists. Movie stars are artists. Madonna is an artist, because she explores her own sexuality. Snoop Doggy Dogg is an artist because he explores other people's sexuality. Victims who express their pain are artists. So are guys in prison who express themselves on shirt cardboard. Even consumers are artists when they express themselves in their selection of commodities. The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators."

- Brad Holland from "Express Yourself - It's Later Than You Think"

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:22:20 GMT

“Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. “ ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:35:33 GMT

"Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus."
--Wayne Thiebaud

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:39:07 GMT

Georges Braque said, "There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain."

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:45:24 GMT

A musician must make music; an artist must paint;
A poet must write; if he be at peace with himself.
What a man can be, he must be.
- Abraham Maslow

Fri, 02 May 2008 01:54:01 GMT

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to
put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who
tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

~ William Dobell

Flannery O'Connor

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:20:00 GMT

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

~ Flannery O'Connor