Art QuotesArt quotes deal with the healing nature of both beauty and creative expression in our lives. We are all artists and creators. The nature of creativity is different in each of us. Artistic expression can come in the form of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, collage, fiber art (weaving, quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet), music (playing instruments, singing, using sound vibration in other ways), dancing and movement, performance art, drama/acting/comedy, writing poetry, prose, screen writing, movie making, play writing, journaling, and all other forms of creative play. There are no limits to what you can call art. Expressive arts facilitate growth and healing. They also help us tune into our passions and purpose. Think about what avenue of art brings you joy? What art form would you like to try? Give yourself the joy of playing with new art materials. Take an art class that sounds like fun. I promise it will draw you closer to your unique form of expression and joy. For creative self-help coaching contact: Marta@JoyofQuotes.com The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. Mikhail Baryshnikov Art is whatever you can get away with. John Cage Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. Julia Cameron In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. Julia Cameron The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. Julia Cameron A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude. Willa Cather Each of us possesses a creative self. Claiming that is a transformational art. When you begin to act on your creativity,what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world. The ultimate creative act is to express what is most authentic and individual about you. Eileen M. Clegg The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward. Alan Cohen I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille An artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. Eugene Delacroix Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. Will Durant I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Albert Einstein In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. Ralph Waldo Emerson In art as in love, instinct is enough. Anatole France The capacity to be puzzled is…the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy. Peter Gabriel Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hippocrates Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. Jasper Johns The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its supreme purpose through him. Carl Jung Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Garson Kanin The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal. Elia Kazan Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Fran Lebowitz Art is the child of Nature. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist. Shirley MacLaine A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression. Donald William Mathews Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. Shaun McNiff Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo Paint as you like and die happy. Henry Miller Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. Elizabeth Murray Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form. Stephen Nachmanovitch Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style. Alex Osborn Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. Osho All art is subversive. Pablo Picasso Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up Pablo Picasso Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. Renoir All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. M.C. Richards If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. Tom Robbins Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. John Ruskin Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts, such is the duty of the artist. Robert Schumann Nothing is more the child of art than a garden. Sir Walter Scott I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck The art of life isn't controlling what happens, which is impossible; it's using what happens. Gloria Steinem I am an artist at living – my work of art is my life. D.T. Suzuki Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. Rabindranath Tagore Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and everyone who works is scrubbing some part. Henry David Thoreau All true artists, whether they know it or not, create form a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Eckhart Tolle All art requires courage. Anne Tucker It is the language of nature to which one has to listen. Vincent van Gogh If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola Return from Art Quotes, Artist Quotations, and Sayings about Art to Quotes Listed by Subject
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