ART

“Art is a wound turned into light.” ~ Georges Braque ​ 

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” Theodore Dreiser ​ 

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. A person can see what you are feeling when you do art. ~Sara, 6th grade, Los Cerros Middle School, Danville, California, posted by teacher Bunki Kramer to Getty ArtsEdNet, 1999

"Poetry is art with words and art is poetry without words." ~Quoted in the Moralia of Plutarch as an "oft-repeated saying"  [Loeb, 1927: "poetry is articulate painting, and painting is inarticulate poetry" —tg]

"What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit." ~John Updike, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1984

"Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets, journal, 1996

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas ​ 

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler ​ 

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Aristotle ​ 

"If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul." Paul Cezanne ​ 

ARTIST

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James McNeill Whistler ​ 

“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” Henry Moore  ​

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." ~Oscar Wilde

ARTIST'S INTENTION/EXPERIENCE

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” Vincent van Gogh ​ 

“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'” Vincent Van Gogh ​ 

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.” Georgia O'Keeffe 

ARTIST'S BELIEFS/PHILOSOPHY

​“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau ​ 

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." ~W. Somerset Maugham

EMOTIONS

“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” Vincent Van Gogh ​ 

HEART

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ~ Marc Chagall ​ 

NATURE

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” - Edvard Munch    

“It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” Vincent Van Gogh ​ 

PAINTING

“Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” John Olsen ​ 

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” Pablo Picasso  

SOUL

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” Kurt Vonnegut ​ 

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher

SPIRIT

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art," Leonardo Da Vinci ​

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