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"And it was not a dream that was represented, but a reality -- a different reality of course, but an actual one."
-Emmanuelle De L'Ecotais (on Man Ray)
Welcome to My Different Reality!™
Enjoy these quotes:
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
—Pablo Picasso
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
—Antoine de Saint Exupery
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Pablo Picasso
The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.
—Anonymous
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
—Ernst Haas
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
—Alfred Eisenstaedt
What’s a picture? What counts in photography is geometry, a sense for form where everything is in place. It’s not trivial.”
—Henri Cartier Bresson
Drawing is meditation. You can take your time. You think with your fingers. It’s very dangerous to think with your brain. That’s rationalism. When it comes to drawing, sensuality is better. It’s sensitivity over sense.
—Henri Cartier-Bresson
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
—Max Eastman
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
—Michelangelo
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
—Henry Ward Beecher
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
—Pablo Picasso
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his
personality to the world he lives in.
—Amy Lowell
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
Art reveals itself in psychic understanding of the inner essence of things and
gives form to the relation of man with nothing, with the nature of the absolute.
—Bruce Lee, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
—Salvador Dalí
Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
—Ad Reinhardt
Art is a collaboration between God an the artist, and the less the
artist does the better.
—Andre Gide
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist
has experienced.—Leo Tolstoy
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows
how difficult it is.
—Willa Cather
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
—Albert Einstein
Art is what you can get away with.
—Andy Warhol
Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching), every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.
—Stephen King
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created
sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes ‘art’ in time.
—Alfred Steiglitz
All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
—Alexander Liberman
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
—Francis Bacon
I’ve decided, I’m going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad ‘cause right now my writing sucks.
—Zaffel
A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted.
This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
—Goethe
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 back at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?”
—Howard Ikemoto
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
—Hans Hofmann
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest
manner possible.
—Edward Weston
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
—Joan Miro
I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.
—Louise Nevelson
The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider.
—Mark Rothko
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
—Ansel Adams
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
— Pablo Picasso
Imagine.
—John Lennon
If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event...what
kind of film would you use?
— Anonymous
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
—T. S. Eliot
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
—Paul Klee
The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.
—Salvador Dali
Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
—Pierre Auguste Renoir
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
—Auguste Rodin
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
—Lewis Carroll
Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move.
—Ossie Davis
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
—Wassily Kaninsky
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.
—Vincent van Gogh
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
—Bernard Berenson
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
—William Faulkner
The aim of a picture is not to demonstrate any theory or fact, but is to excite a certain sensory pleasure.”
—J. Craig Annan
His aim is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information or to supply pretty views and striking sunsets.
—George Bernard Shaw (on photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn)
For an artist, it is the expression of an idea that is of paramount importance, the technique used to do so being not an end in itself but a means of achieving that end...
—Man Ray
”For if we admit that the faking that photographers have indulged in for the last 50 years is legitimate, but that similar faking, under other names and by more effective methods, is not, we are acting like overgrown children.”
—Robert Demachy (in Camera Work 18 in 1907!!!)
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
—Herman Hesse
What the poet is looking for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
—Antonio Machado
Men know how to read printed books; they do not know how to read the unprinted ones. They can play on a stringed harp, but not on a stringless one. Applying themselves to the superficial instead of the profound, how should they understand music or poetry?
— Kojisei
O to be delivered from the rational into the realm of pure song…
—Theodore Roethke
Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know—the music feels like it was already there.
—Bono
It’s art if I say it is.
—Anonymous
Art speaks not to the mind, but to the heart and to the soul. It resonates with our being. It stirs a memory of, or a yearning for, a time of total connection to something. That something may have been real, or it may be a fantasy we still entertain, but the image of it expresses our true character laid bare in its longing.
—Randy Zucker
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art!
—Oscar Wilde
I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
—Frank Auerbach
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
—Hans Hofmann
I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.
—Edvard Munch
“The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.”
—Vincent vanGogh
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’
—Vincent vanGogh
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
—Leonardo da Vinci
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
—Paul Gaugin
… it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
—Keith Haring
There is no must in art because art is free.
—Wasilly Kandinsky
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
—Henri Matisse
People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.
—Edgar Degas
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
The aim off art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle
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