Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Anthony Ciardi
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. – Pablo Picasso
To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. – George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. – Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. – Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking… a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys… every line has its own meaning. – Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. – Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Only an artist with a part of God in him can see beauty in the commonplaces of life. The rest merely mark time until they die. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Art is an adventure that never seems to end. – Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. – Robin Tyler
Art is the triumph over chaos. – John Cheever
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. – Glenn Close
Every child is an artist, with imagination and the artistic instinct. Life stamps these out… – Percy Mackaye, 1915 lecture
It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity. – Dudley Crafts Watson, 1918
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. – Jean Paul Richter
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
