Art holds fast when all else is lost. – German Proverb
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. – Fran Lebowitz
Great art picks up where nature ends. – Marc Chagall
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” – Howard Ikemoto
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. – G.K. Chesterton
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
There is something ghostly in all great art. – Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) [a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo —tεᖇ
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. – Henry Miller
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde
Let me ask you something, what is not art? – Author Unknown
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan
God and other artists are always a little obscure. – Oscar Wilde
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. – Georges Rouault
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money. – Ernst Levy
