The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art Quotes — #17
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
—Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923, Oil on canvas
55.1 × 79.1″ (140.0 × 201.0 cm)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Art Quotes — #16
“Art takes nature as its model.”
—Aristotle
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Art Quotes — #15
“I would like to paint as the bird sings…I would like to prevent one from seeing how it is done.”
Quote from: Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self , p. 177 (as recalled by Maurice Guillemot )
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Image: Claude Monet, Water-Lilies, after 1916, oil on canvas, 200 × 427 cm, National Gallery, London, NG6343
Video Art Quotes: Episode 4
Episode 4 of Video Art Quotes – enjoy! Check out more quotes by clicking the Art Quotes link in the navigation menu.
In this episode:
“Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
— Anish Kapoor
“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”
— Akira Kurosawa
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Make your life be your art and you will never be forgotten.”
—Charlotte Eriksson
Art Quotes — #14
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Art Quotes — #13
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed.” —Albert Einstein
Art Quotes — #12
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“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” —Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), The Large Bathers (French: Les Grandes Baigneuses), 1898-1905, oil on canvas, 210.5 cm x 250.8 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Art Quotes — #11
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“Apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.” —Joan Miró
Art Quotes — #10
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All art is but imitation of nature. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Omnis ars naturae imitatio est.) from Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) – Letter LXV: On the first cause, line 3.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was son of Seneca the Elder. (wikiquote)