Art Quotes

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor

Motivation, Attention, Artist

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Long, Enough, Moment

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein

Plain, Transform, Forms

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski

True, Principles, Portray

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson

By the work one knows the workman.
Jean de La Fontaine

Work, Knows, Workman

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Home, Hurts, Stay

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt

Destiny, Artist, Grand

I think about my work every minute of the day.
Jeff Koons

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor

Artists, Objects

Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Language, Painting

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty

Love, Wanted, Fine

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro

Fire, Soul, Works

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay

True, Creative, Vision

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy Kosinski

Principle, Pause, Bypass

All great art is born of the metropolis.
Ezra Pound

Great, Born, Metropolis

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

Painting, Half, Finished

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

Beauty, Effort, Flowers

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan

Someone, Others, Artist

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand

Beauty, Nothing, Often

Trying to force creativity is never good.
Sarah McLachlan

Good, Trying, Creativity

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi

Idea, Themselves, Looking

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin

Life, Beauty, Mind

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen

Force, Explaining, Major

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